Word Finder - parlour

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The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room

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The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.

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A comfortable room in a public house.

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A covered open-air patio.

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A shop or other business selling goods specified by context.

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A shed used for milking cattle.

A parlour, library and dining-room made up the suite of apartments.

The first model was set up in the parlour of the house belonging to the free grammar school at Preston.

The term parlour bronzes serves to designate objects for domestic use, as flower-vases, incense-burners and alcove ornaments.

But the extra charges levied for the use of parlour, sleeping and other special cars, of which some of the best trains are exclusively composed, in practice constitute a differentiation of class, besides making the real cost of travelling higher than the figures just given.

But to these were quickly added subjects of allegory, of classical learning, of witchcraft and superstition and of daily life; scenes of the parlour and the cloister, of the shop, the field, the market and the camp; and lastly portraits of famous men, with scenes of court life and princely pageant and ceremony.

Between this building and the church, opening by one door into the cloisters, and by another to the outer part of the monastery area, is the "parlour" for interviews with visitors from the external world (0).

On the east side stands the two-aisled chapter-house (5), between which and the south transept is a small sacristy (3), and on the other side two small apartments, one of which was probably the parlour (6).

This was sometimes known as the parlour, colloquii locus, the monks having the privilege of conversation here.

Considerable portions of this remain, including the abbot's parlour, celebrated as "the Jerusalem Chamber," his hall, now used for the Westminster King's Scholars, and the kitchen and butteries beyond.