parlor

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Higgins 'vision for the parlor is to be a place were teens can hang out after the game or school.

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  1. noun A room in a private home set apart for the entertainment of visitors.
  2. noun A small lounge or sitting room affording limited privacy, as at an inn or tavern.
  3. noun A room equipped and furnished for a special function or business: a tanning parlor.

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  • Dalziel, of course, didn't; he didn't know that the parlor was the small room beside the front door reserved for entertaining females Smiling easily, Jack nodded. —  Stephanie Laurens - A Fine Passion
  • But any way one put it, the parlor was a small and shabby room. —  Mary Balogh - Lady with a Black Umbrella.htm
  • Standing outside the pizza parlor was the owner, one Rahi Aziz. —  Spider-Man2
  • A row of casement windows set into the front wall of the parlor were all open. —  Emma Bull - Finder
  • Higgins 'vision for the parlor is to be a place were teens can hang out after the game or school. —  Payson Roundup stories
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  1. Middle English parlur, from Old French, from parler, to talk; see parley.
 

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