"parlour" is correct and is usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a room in a private house where visitors are received, usually a living room. For example, "We were greeted in the parlour of her home".
Besides the beach, Dueodde has Scandinavia's highest lighthouse, two German bunkers, and a much-loved ice-cream parlour, Bornholm Softice, but not much else.
In one of the more surreal moments during the election campaign, I ended up with Osborne in an ice-cream parlour in Cleveleys.
(That is, if they are not already discussing it up there in the great central bankers' resting parlour in the sky).
You pass a banqueting hall, a mayor's parlour, committee rooms and reception rooms, until you reach a tiny office in which crouches the genial figure of Sir Howard Bernstein, like a spider in a gothic web of corridors, exuding power.
The Settle Down Cafe on Thornton Street has a back room like the parlour of your nan's house.
I must admit to surprise at your apparent naivety on hearing the words 'receptionist in a massage parlour'.
I used to work in an ice-cream parlour as a student and two guys I worked with looked like John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
Then we were jamming in the train's rehearsal space (next to the massage parlour).
The solution – speed reading – may seem like a magician's parlour trick or a knack you have to be born with.
I merely had to receive orders and relay information for my Lord Vader and, by inference, for the teenagers gathered on the parlour carpet.
Many of his works were destroyed, thrown away, burned, faded in sunlight on parlour walls, or left decaying in damp museum stores.
