A room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax.
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She was in the dining-room; in the parlour Maud was practising music.
2
In the evening I sit with the family in the parlour, talking.
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Thus there was love in the parlour and love in the kitchen.
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There was no light in the passage nor any in the parlour.
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And such is life-love on the lawn and settlements in the parlour.
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Half the differences of the parish are adjusted in this very parlour.
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He must be still in the chimney of the little west parlour.
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I pass the funeral parlour where four weeks ago the ceremony unfurled.
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Together we squeezed in and found ourselves in a dark front parlour.
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Upstairs in the parlour Samuel was explaining the matter to his wife.
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The window of the parlour was open and the curtains pinned up.
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Katherine closed the best parlour, and lingered a moment in the act.
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At the end of the half hour I returned to the parlour.
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In a moment more, the handle of the parlour door was turned.
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His reverence is downstairs; I told him to go into the parlour.
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By-and-by Roger commanded Jane to go and set candles in the parlour.
