Entertaining game played by several children or adults for the purpose of pastime or amusement.
Group game played indoors.
1They keep me in the room, a parlour game: come watch this ur-adult.
2In this simple parlour game players are presented with several piles of matches.
3As he spoke, the so-called parlour game was in full swing.
4There is a kind of parlour game one can play here.
5Quite a little parlour game-sortof three-cardtrick, is it not?
6The Six Nations is gone, which means the grand parlour game can now begin.
7Once a traditional parlour game, bridge has been hit by two separate cheating scandals.
8THE search for the Great American Novel is an amusing if aimless literary parlour game.
9Still, the speculation makes for a fine parlour game.
10Here's a traditional parlour game that might help.
11In another parlour game of a rather interesting kind the youngest in the room begins by saying-
12It would make a good parlour game.
13There is an exciting new parlour game.
14Table turning as a parlour game is about as stupid and aimless an amusement as I know.
15It has become a parlour game to try and spot modern trends that Tocqueville foresaw 160 years ago.
16Condemning welfare is a popular parlour game among those who don't have to worry about their next meal.
Translations for parlour game