parlor
Example Sentences
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On the first floor, the front parlor, with its wooden wainscoting and classical door frames, is more elegant after conservation restored small details in the decorative moldings.
Cascading revelations, pored over on X and Bluesky, have, in turn, become a parlor game of Choose Your Own Enemy.
But he knows that, if a critic can’t draw enlightening connections, attribution is only a parlor game.
Once a month or so I saw Mrs. Almeta Payne in our parlor, along with half a dozen other ladies from the church sewing circle.
From Literature
This was the era of the sentimental “parlor song,” of which the British song “The Lost Chord” is the sophisticated epitome.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
