parlour : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: parlour	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for parlour
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
parlour n reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received Synonym(s): parlor, parlour a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax Synonym(s): living room, living-room, sitting room, front room, parlor, parlour
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Parlor \Par"lor\, n. [OE. parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL. parlatorium. See {Parley}.] [Written also {parlour}.] A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically: (a) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. --Piers Plowman. (b) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. (c) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained. Note: [bd]In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till recently.[b8] --Fitzed. Hall. {Parlor car}. See {Palace car}, under {Car}.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Parlour (from the Fr. parler, "to speak") denotes an "audience chamber," but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in Judg. 3:20 (the "summer parlour"), or as in the margin of the Revised Version ("the upper chamber of cooling"), a small room built on the roof of the house, with open windows to catch the breeze, and having a door communicating with the outside by which persons seeking an audience may be admitted. While Eglon was resting in such a parlour, Ehud, under pretence of having a message from God to him, was admitted into his presence, and murderously plunged his dagger into his body (21, 22). The "inner parlours" in 1 Chr. 28:11 were the small rooms or chambers which Solomon built all round two sides and one end of the temple (1 Kings 6:5), "side chambers;" or they may have been, as some think, the porch and the holy place. In 1 Sam. 9:22 the Revised Version reads "guest chamber," a chamber at the high place specially used for sacrificial feasts.