Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete variant of
parlance .
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Examples
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His plot this time is for the town to band together and make an adult film; or porno βto use the parliance of our times.β
Row Three » Review: The Amateurs - Where Cinema is more than just $100 Million productions 2008
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It rounds out to a labdanum/patchouli combination that I could see being labeled "leather" in broad perfumista parliance, but this is no leather fragrance to me!
Perfume Review: Histoires de Parfums 1740 Marquis de Sade Marina Geigert 2007
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Item if you shall be inuited into any Lords or Rulers house, to dinner, or other parliance, goe in such order of strength, that you may be stronger then they, and be warie of woods and ambushes, and that your weapons be not out of your possessions.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Item if you shall be inuited into any Lords or Rulers house, to dinner, or other parliance, goe in such order of strength, that you may be stronger then they, and be warie of woods and ambushes, and that your weapons be not out of your possessions.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation β Volume 03 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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