parlance

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Hence the necessity for a rifle that will shock as well as penetrate Drawing: Advice from a Cheerful Stranger Several experienced African lion hunters strongly advise taking a "paradox," which in their parlance is affectionately called a "cripple-stopper."

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  1. noun A particular manner of speaking; idiom: legal parlance.
  2. noun Speech, especially a conversation or parley.

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  • They would laughingly recall occasions when, in American parlance, they had put each other “in a hole”; the exigencies of war had now made these two men colleagues in the same government, but the twenty years preceding 1914 they had spent in political antagonism. —  The Life and Letters of Walter H. Page, Volume II
  • They were driving in a char-a-banes—in French parlance, "attele a la Daumont"—that is, with four horses, of which the wheelers are driven from the box by a coachman, and the leaders ridden by a postilion. —  The Days Before Yesterday
  • Second we have a visual programming language where the mode of expression is proximate causality or, in American parlance "Rube Goldberg machines". —  The Code Project Latest Articles
  • In newspaper parlance, the term "news hole" refers to the amount of space in an issue devoted to news content, as opposed to advertisements, for example. —  Information Today News Breaks
  • In Australian parlance, a "burke" is a clueless idiot, how very apt … —  Crooks and Liars
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  1. Middle French, from Old French, from parler, to speak; see parley.

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  1. Formerly also parlence; from Old French parlance, parlaunce, speech, from parlant, present participle of parler, speak: see pari.
 

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