parlour
part of speech
noun (a parlour, parlours); US spelling parlor
meaning for a pupil
1) (old) A sitting room in a house kept for receiving visitors or for the family to relax in. tree →
2) A shop or business giving a certain service: an ice-cream parlour, a beauty parlour, a funeral parlour. tree →
3) (farming) A milking parlour is the building where cows are milked. tree →
sense in the lessons
In old books, the parlour is the best room of a house. In The Wind in the Willows, Mole's little home, Mole End, has a parlour, and Badger's home and Toad Hall have fine rooms; the word shows a cosy, old-fashioned home. In modern life, an ice-cream parlour is a fun place to visit. A funeral parlour is where the body of a person who has died is looked after before a funeral. Phrases: «parlour game» (an indoor party game like charades).
examples
- We had sundaes at the ice-cream parlour. tree →
- Grandma's parlour had a piano and lace curtains. tree →
- The cows walk into the milking parlour twice a day. tree →
- We played parlour games at the Christmas party. tree →
- The visitors were shown into the parlour. tree →
- The funeral parlour was quiet and calm. tree →
- Then they began to run, rushed into the parlour, and threw themselves round their father’s neck. tree →
note
UK/Ireland/Australia/NZ/Canada spelling parlour; US spelling parlor. Countable.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «parlour» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.