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noun
The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking.
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After supper aunt excused self and he and young lady went to parlor.
"In a way they are harkening back to parlor music with those instruments, some of which I don't even recognize.
Luranah gave recitals in London until the First World War, her repertory ranging from lieder to chansons to parlor songs.
I asked what she would say if suddenly informed that her house might be filled with deadly radon gas which oozed out of the earth into the cellar and upward through the floorboards to parlor and bedrooms.
Having seen the latter kind of work — dancers in massed choruses, inquiring about the state of their souls ("Gloria," "Stabat Mater") — people didn't understand how he could also do the former kind of work, perform in his underpants, with a paper bag over his head, to parlor songs ("The Vacant Chair").
With its unlikely combination of percussion, a violin section and hyperactive flute obbligatos, charanga looks back to parlor orchestras and forward to salsa, and the band led by Eddie Zervigón, who hails from Cuba and plays the traditional five-keyed wooden flute, has kept charanga thriving in New York City.
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The Yankees have not rushed to tattoo parlors to get flaming skulls stenciled on their shoulders.
With a growing number of food franchises in Michigan and Florida, from Cinnabon to pizza parlors to a coffeehouse, Moore stayed busy.
He drove her to the beauty parlor, to the doctor, to visit her friends.
Everything you need to lift home-made pies to pizza parlor quality.
Within four days, the goal was exceeded, and Livingston went to a tattoo parlor to get his seventh tattoo.
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