Sentence examples for parlour work from inspiring English sources

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Instead there are false divisions which exist in the industry—a sense of elitism around doing low-volume high-cost appointments, which means there's little discussion of parlour work.

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David and Michael meet up one Monday afternoon in December at Michael's north London house, where there is a convenient Steinway piano in the parlour, and work out what that the other A-side would be.

It doesn't matter whether it's dancing around a box of wine in the corner of the office or shimmying it up at your local champagne parlour, the work festive bash usually demands sartorial flounce of one manner or another.

Every week, Miss Stapleton tells me, they meet in Mrs Hatch's parlour for Working-Class Wednesday, a role-playing session where they take on the part of the proletariat rather than the gentry.

An eloquent elegy for the Old Ways is delivered by the dignified Councillor Duxbury (Finlay Currie), co-owner of the funeral parlour where Billy works.

Kathmandu also has hundreds of bars and massage parlours where women work in poor conditions, with many compelled to have sex with clients.

Parlour, who now works as a commentator on the British radio station TalkSport, said the dour public persona was not all-encompassing; Wenger has a wry sense of humor, he said, and the ability to artfully deadpan at any moment.

She did her 'apprenticeship' in a parlour, and now works for herself, quietly, from home.

After growing fed-up at the funeral parlour she'd worked in previously, Joy chose to go it alone.

As part of restoration work, the parlour fireplace, which had been bricked up, was exposed and refurbished, allowing visitors to get a feel for the spot where Coleridge may well have written one of his best-loved works.

In his important novel Alastalon salissa (1933; "In the Parlour at Alastalo"), a work of more than 900 pages, he used interior monologues, long flashback episodes, and exact, detailed description to give an account of the events in a six-hour period.

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