Parlor

Definition: Parlor

Parlor

Noun

1. Reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.

2. A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "parlor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1350. (references)

Etymology: Parlor \Par"lor\, noun. [from Old English expression parlour, parlur, French parloir, Late Latin expression parlatorium. See Parley.]. (references)

Synonyms: Parlor

Receptacle

Chamber, apartment, room, cabin; office, court, hall, atrium; suite of rooms, apartment, flat, story; saloon, salon, parlor; by-room, cubicle; presence chamber; sitting room, best room, keeping room, drawing room, reception room, state room; gallery, cabinet, closet; pew, box; boudoir; adytum, sanctum; bedroom, dormitory; refectory, dining room, salle-a-manger; nursery, schoolroom; library, study; studio; billiard room, smoking room; den; stateroom, tablinum, tenement.

Servant

Maid, maidservant; handmaid; confidente, lady's maid, abigail, soubrette; amah, biddy, nurse, bonne, ayah; nursemaid, nursery maid, house maid, parlor maid, waiting maid, chamber maid, kitchen maid, scullery maid; femme de chambre, femme fille; camarista; chef de cuisine,cordon bleu, cook, scullion, Cinderella; potwalloper; maid of all work, servant of all work; laundress, bedmaker; journeyman, charwoman; (worker); bearer, chokra, gyp, hamal, scout.

Vehicle

Train; accommodation train, passenger train, express trail, special train, corridor train, parliamentary train, luggage train, freight train, goods train; st class train, nd class train, rd class train, st class carriage, nd class carriage, rd class carriage, st class compartment, nd class compartment, rd class compartment; rolling stock; horse box, cattle truck; baggage car, express car, freight car, parlor car, dining car, Pullman car, sleeping car, sleeper, dome car; surface car, tram car, trolley car; box car, box wagon; horse car; bullet train, shinkansen, cannonball, the Wabash cannonball, lightning express; luggage van; mail, mail car, mail van.

Workshop

Hive, hive of industry; nursery; hothouse, hotbed; kitchen; mint, forge, loom; dock, dockyard; alveary; armory; laboratory, lab, refinery; cannery; power plant; beauty parlor;beehive, bindery, forcing pit, nailery, usine, slip, yard, wharf; foundry, foundery; furnace; vineyard.

Crosswords: Parlor

Let joy be unconfined! Let there be dancing in the streets, drinking in the saloons, and necking in the parlor. (A Night at the Opera; writing credit: James Kevin McGuinness; George S. Kaufman)

I try not to, but the bills at the beauty parlor get bigger every year (Midnight Lace; writing credit: Janet Green; Ivan Goff)

I'm worried about that pizza parlor putana (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster)

Our pizza parlor relies on it's weird image (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles; writing credit: Kevin Eastman; Peter Laird)

You damage her, you damage me, and I will make you walk all 12.6 lightyears back to Fat Anthony's Guitar Parlor in Shreveport, Louisiana to repair a single nick (Space: Above and Beyond; writing credit: Mark Shirrefs; John J. Thomson)

Do the chairs in your parlor seem empty and bare (Are You Lonesome Tonight?; performing artist: Elvis Presley)

Boys in the parlor (Androgyny; performing artist: Garbage)

Massage Parlor Wife (1971)

Mme. Olga's Massage Parlor (1965)

Bedroom and Wrath Parlor (1948)

A Panic in the Parlor (1941)

Bosko's Parlor Pranks (1934)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

References

• The World Market for Table or Parlor Games, Printed Tables for Casino Games, Automated Bowling Alley Equipment, and Billiards: A 2004 Global Trade Perspective (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Bernie Magruder and the Drive-Thru Funeral Parlor (Aladdin Fiction) (reference)

• Parlor Cats: A Victorian Celebration (reference)

• Parlor Games (reference)

• Parlor Games: Amusements and Entertainments for Everyone (reference)

• Parlor Politics: In Which the Ladies of Washington Help Build a City and a Government (Jeffersonian America) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Parlor Music from the Civil War Era (reference)

• Parlor Songs & Rags (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Hog parlor with lagoon in Georga. Credit: USDA.

U.S. Army. Camp Hospital No. 27, Tours, France. : Interior view of parlor at Nurses Home. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

U. S. Army Base Hospital Number 57, Paris, France. : Nurses parlor. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Two men and a woman talking in parlor. Credit: Library of Congress.

There, in the parlor door, stood the stranger. Credit: Library of Congress.

Beauty parlor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Globe cafe (formerly a church), Mutual Burlesk theater, and Washington shoe shine and hat cleaning parlor, 9th St., between E and F St., N.W. on east side, Washington, D.C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Residence of Mrs. H.C. Parke, parlor, Detroit, Mich. Credit: Library of Congress.

Hampton Terrace Hotel, green parlor, Augusta, Ga. Credit: Library of Congress.

Mayor Woods parlor. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Economic History

Yemen

Baskin Robbins opened an ice cream parlor in Sanaa in July 1999 and has another in Aden. (references)

Trade

Pakistan

Items on the "negative" list include: translations of the Holy Koran without Arabic text; goods bearing words or inscriptions of a religious connotation; obscene pictures, writings, or inscriptions; horror comics; obscene, subversive and anti-Islamic literature; products and by-products of pigs, hogs, boars, or swine; fireworks; tanks and armored vehicles; artillery weapons; revolvers and pistols of prohibited bores; parlor games; gambling equipment; sculptures, worked ivory, alcoholic beverages, hazardous wastes, rollable scrap, woven fabrics of cotton, woven fabrics of synthetic stable fibers, carpets and other floor coverings, articles of apparel and clothing accessories, bed linen, toilet linen and kitchen linen, tarpaulin and tents, curtains and other furnishing articles and antiques exceeding one hundred years in age. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Ghanaian and Continental cuisine as well as an ice cream parlor and good espresso. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "parlor": beauty parlor ♦ billiard parlor ♦ funeral parlor ♦ massage parlor ♦ parlor car ♦ parlor game ♦ parlor games ♦ parlor grand ♦ parlor grand piano ♦ parlor maid ♦ parlor match ♦ parlor socialist ♦ parlor tricks ♦ pizza parlor ♦ sun parlor ♦ tea parlor. Additional references.

Ending with "parlor": shoe-parlor.

Albanian

sallon (drawing room, hall, hallway, parlour, porch, salon, saloon, sitting room), lokal (cafeteria, coffee room, house, local, native, parlour, premises, provincial, restaurant, room, sectional, spot, vicinal), dhomë pritjeje (drawing room, parlour, sitting room, waiting room), atelje (parlour). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مؤسسة تجارية (parlour, shop, trade centre), ‏قاعة صغيرة (parlour), ‏قاعة إستقبال (parlour), ‏حافلة قطار (parlour), ‏ردهة (anteroom, foyer, hall, limbo, lobby, lounge, parlour, vestibule), ‏دار (circle, come round, dwelling, go, gyrate, hand round, home, house, operate, orb, orbit, pan, parlour, residence, revolve, rotate, round, screw, spin, spun, swing, swing round, swirl, swivel, turn over, twiddle, twirl, up and about, wheel, whirl, wind). (various references)

Bulgarian 

стая за посетители (parlour), салонен (parlour), салон (auditorium, hall, lounge, parlour, salon, saloon), теоретичен (abstract, doctrinaire, moot, parlour, platonic, pure, theoretic, theoretical), кабинетен (armchair, closet, parlour), гостна стая (parlour, reception room), всекидневна стая (parlour, sitting room), ателие (atelier, parlour, shop), приемна зала (parlour, salon, stateroom), приемна (auditorium, drawing room, parlour). (various references)

Chinese 

客厅 (parlour). (various references)

Czech

provozovna (parlour, workshop), salon (drawing room, parlour, salon), jídelna (cafeteria, chop-house, cook-shop, dining room, eatery, eating house, mess, parlour, porterhouse, refectory), ústav (establishment, institute, institution, parlour). (various references)

Danish

sildebensmalkestald (herringbone milking parlour). (various references)

Dutch

visgraatmelkstal (herringbone milking parlour). (various references)

Farsi 

اطاق پذیراءی . (various references)

Finnish

kalanruotomallinen lypsyasema (herringbone milking parlour), kalanruotolypsyasema (herringbone milking parlour). (various references)

French

parloir (parlour), salle de traite en arête de hareng (herringbone milking parlour), salle de traite en épi (herringbone milking parlour). (various references)

German

Wohnzimmer (living room, living-room, lounge, parlors, parlour, parlours, reception room, sitting room, sitting-room), schönheitssalon (beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty salon, parlour), salon (drawing room, exhibition stand, lounge, parlour, salon, saloon, sitting-room), gute stube (parlour), Fischgrätenmelkstand (herringbone milking parlour). (various references)

Greek 

σάλα (parlour), σαλόνι (drawing room, lounge, parlour, salon, sitting room), ινστιτούτο (institute, parlour, salon), αίθουσα αρμέγματος σε σχήμα στάχυος (herringbone milking parlour), αίθουσα (auditorium, hall, parlour, room, salon). (various references)

Hungarian

társalgó (combination room, conversational, dayroom, drawing room, foyer, lounge, parlour, talker), fogadószoba (parlour, salon). (various references)

Indonesian

kamar tamu (antechamber, parlour). (various references)

Italian

stalli da mungitura (herringbone milking parlour), salotto (drawing room, lounge, parlour, salon, sitting room, sitting-room), bottega (parlour, shop, store), a spina di pesce (herringbone milking parlour). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

表座敷 (front room, living room), パートタイム従業員 (padre, palm ball, par play, parliament, part time employee, partner, partnership, pearl, pearl gray, perfect, perfect game, performance, perlite, permanent, permanent pleats, permanent press, permanent wave, permission, purple), 客間 (guest room). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おもてざしき (front room, living room), パーラー , きゃくま (guest room). (various references)

Korean 

객실. (various references)

Pig Latin

arlorpay.(various references)

Portuguese

pequena sala (parlour, reception desk), saleta (parlour, reception desk), salão (hall, lounge, parlour, salon, saloon), sala de ordenha em espinha (herringbone milking parlour), sala de estar (day room, drawing-room, foyer, keeping-room, living room, parlour, reception desk, sitter, sitting room), sala de espera (antechamber, parlour, vestibule, waiting room), gabinete (cabinet, camarilla, chamber, council, cuddy, ministry, parlour, reception desk). (various references)

Romanian

parloar (parlour), salonaş (parlour), salon modest (parlour), camerã de toate zilele (parlour), camerã de primire (parlour), cabinet (cabinet, chamber, closet, government, office, parlour, study), atelier (manufactory, parlour, shed, shop, studio, workhouse, workroom, works, workshop). (various references)

Russian 

гостиная (drawing room, keeping room, keeping-room, living room, living-room, parlour, reception room, reception-room, salon, sitting room, sitting-room). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

soba za posete (parlour, reception room), radnja (act, action, deed, doing, parlour, shop, store). (various references)

Spanish

salón (drawing room, lounge, parlour, salon, saloon, show, sitting room), sala de recibir (parlour), sala de ordeno en espina de pescado (herringbone milking parlour), locutorio (auditorium, parlour). (various references)

Swedish

vardagsrum (bed sitter, bed-sitter, living room, lounge, morning-room, parlour, sitting room, sitting-room), snedbås (herringbone milking parlour), salong (auditorium, drawing room, drawing-room, house, keeping room, lounge, parlour, salon, saloon, sitting-room), sällskapsrum (lounge, parlour, reception room), mottagningsrum (consulting room, office, parlour), fiskbensstall (herringbone milking parlour). (various references)

Turkish

salon (drawing room, hall, hippodrome, living room, lounge, parlour, salon, saloon, sitting room), oturma odası (living room, parlour, sitting room). (various references)

Ukrainian

невеликий зал (parlour), маленька вітальня (parlour), приймальня (antechamber, parlour, waiting room). (various references)

Vietnamese 

hiệu. (various references)

Welsh

parlwr. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "parlor": parlors. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Parlor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Apeldorn, Aprlow, palor, panloy, pario, parleg, parler, Parli, parlo, Parlow, paror, Parvo, Paylor, pearlwort, purler, purlorn, Purslow. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: parol, polar.

-2 letters: opal, oral, orra, parr, prao, proa, roar.

-3 letters: alp, lap, lar, lop, oar, ora, pal, par, pol, pro, rap.

-4 letters: al, ar, la, lo, op, or, pa.

+1 letter: parlors, parlour, peroral.

+2 letters: corporal, parlours, premolar, premoral, procural, prolabor, proviral, reproval, sporular.

+3 letters: carpooler, corporals, corporeal, fluorspar, opercular, patroller, perorally, polarizer, portrayal, premolars, procurals, prodromal, raptorial, reprovals.

+4 letters: carpoolers, corporally, fluorspars, leprosaria, micropylar, operculars, palmerworm, paranormal, patrollers, percolator, polarizers, portrayals, pourparler, praetorial, prefrontal, primordial, procedural, proclaimer, proctorial, procurable, pronuclear, proverbial, reciprocal, replicator, repolarize, reportable, ropewalker, transpolar.