parlor

名词 n.
/ˈpɑːlə/    /ˈpɑɹlɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room.
    — So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor. 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.
  2. 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. archaic
  3. A comfortable room in a public house. dated
    — Immediately at hand was a small, mean public-house - one of those dingy establishments that seem to express, by their morbid and retiring appearance, a certain anxiety to escape the eye of the police - and into the parlour of this hostel Quin promptly led the way.
  4. A covered open-air patio. Southern-US
  5. A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
    — tattoo parlor   pizza parlor   ice cream parlor
  6. A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.; Ellipsis of beauty parlor. Philippines,abbreviation,alt-of,ellipsis
  7. A shed used for milking cattle; a milking parlor.

词形变化

parlors plural parlour alternative

词源

Inherited from Middle English parlour, from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from the verb parler (“to speak”); compare Medieval Latin parlātōrium. Doublet of parloir.
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