parlour game

How to use parlour game in a sentence

• This was a 'parlour game' at the Rectory, as I discovered later, and one in which my aunt always came off the winner.

  Border Ghost Stories | Howard Pease

• Even regarded as a parlour game, it palls upon one after the first hour and a half.

  The Strand Magazine, Volume VII, Issue 42, June, 1894 | Various

• It is a favourite performance on the stage, and not seldom tried as a parlour game.

  Psychology and Social Sanity | Hugo Mnsterberg

• It must be a good rubber, however, for the parlour game is neither relaxation nor pleasure.

  Scotch Loch-Fishing | AKA Black Palmer, William Senior