parlour

How to use parlour in a sentence

• The Lost PaintingBy Jonathan Harr Not all of us have lost paintings by Caravaggio in our parlour.

  Alexander McCall Smith’s Art Book Bag | Alexander McCall Smith | September 4, 2012 | THE DAILY BEAST

• The wind is howling, and the rain is pelting against the parlour windows of the Banking-house, whose blinds are drawn close down.

  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV. | Various

• He just got a good holt–a shore enough diamond hitch–on that thirst-parlour dawg, and chawed.

  Alec Lloyd, Cowpuncher | Eleanor Gates

• On his return he introduced them on the Midland, both the parlour car and the sleeper.

  Fifty Years of Railway Life in England, Scotland and Ireland | Joseph Tatlow

• Like the cobbler's stall in the old song, it served the present occupants for "kitchen and parlour and all."

  The World Before Them | Susanna Moodie