parlance
[pahr-luh ns]
- a way or manner of speaking; vernacular; idiom: legal parlance.
- speech, especially a formal discussion or debate.
- talk; parley.
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Origin of parlance
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Contemporary Examples
But Scott, in taking the parlance of the street to the SportsCenter desk, helped affirm its ascendance.
It always surprises you to hear the Arabic pronunciation of words that have entered American parlance.
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August 31, 2014
Reviews seemed to range a short spectrum between turnip (a dud, in the French parlance) and not-a-complete-turnip.
The campaign finance laws at issue in these cases are what, in First Amendment parlance, are known as content-neutral.
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April 5, 2014
A “stringer,” in the parlance of foreign correspondents, Sundaram sold stories to The New York Times and the Associated Press.
Historical Examples
It was a case, in the parlance of thieves and police, of “rail-roading.”
White FangJack London
There is my cradle, after the flesh; my native land—in the parlance of the men of these days!
ThaisAnatole France
They took me by surprise—in Western parlance, got the drop on me.
Lorimer of the NorthwestHarold Bindloss
A term singularly, but very often, misapplied in parlance for orbit.
The Sailor's Word-BookWilliam Henry Smyth
They all went to church Sabbath morning, in the old Puritan parlance.
A Little Girl in Old BostonAmanda Millie Douglas
parlance
- a particular manner of speaking, esp when specialized; idiompolitical parlance
- archaic any discussion, such as a debate
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Word Origin
C16: from Old French, from parler to talk, via Medieval Latin from Late Latin parabola speech, parable; compare parley
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Word Origin and History for parlance
n.
1570s, "speaking, speech," especially in debate; 1787 as "way of speaking," from Anglo-French (c.1300) and Old French parlance, from Old French parlaunce, from parler "to speak" (see parley).
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