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parlor

noun as in sitting room

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He made a once-popular parlor instrument brand new, punching every piano roll himself and then letting the machine play faster than any dozen real-life pianists could, making for palpable Niagaras of sound.

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There’s an ice cream parlor, a food hall, and a bar shaped like a luggage carousel.

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I am sitting in a tent placed inside the parlor of a Victorian-era house.

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Among its first buildings were a land office, a beauty parlor, a motel, two restaurants and a feed store — all with Old West facades.

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To beat the long lines and city crowds, I trekked to the parlor on Sunday, the final day of the ice cream’s NYC debut.

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