parlor
noun
a room for the reception and entertainment of visitors to one's home; living room.
parlors
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pluralof parlor.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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While the makers of these apps insist they are “future exchanges,” not digital gambling parlors, regulators in places like Singapore, France, Belgium and elsewhere aren’t convinced and have banned the platforms altogether.
From Salon ● Aug. 12, 2026
As new arrivals moved into cities, an 8-by-5-block pocket of downtown Vancouver soon grew into Canada’s largest Chinatown, with bustling mahjong parlors, herbalists and community centers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 27, 2025
Such are our funeral parlors for food, where mechanical reproduction haunts nourishment and we eat from the giant slot machines of industry.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 24, 2024
Her paintings are set amid the privileged spaces of 19th-century parlors and gardens, where women sew or read or nurse an infant, uninterrupted by men.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
There was only one middle school, one high school, one biggish grocery store, and one run-down city pool, but about one million beauty parlors and churches.
From "Hope Springs" by Jaime Berry
