Sentence examples for a parlour from inspiring English sources

A parlour trick, good for nothing practical.

More of a parlour, really.

Answering that question has been a parlour game for economists since long before the crisis.

Bingo became legal only last year, and only charitable groups are allowed to operate a parlour.

In The Hours, Virginia Woolf stands at a parlour window "watching the dark descend on Richmond".

The matter of writing is not a parlour game, however playful the writers are at times.

The study was carried out in a loose-housing system where the cows come to be milked in a parlour.

But the rules vary widely.In this section Where voting is a parlour game Can reform stop the bombers?

He pulls up his sleeve and shows me a tattoo he had inked in a parlour off Copacabana.

No longer can it be said that the apex of Tory politics is a parlour game for public schoolboys.

The world has changed immensely since then, so what Beveridge would say today can only be a parlour game.