parlour

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"A lot of farms will be in similar positions having borrowed money to put up a beef shed or for a dairy parlour or to buy a combine," Mr Aveling said.

From BBC • Nov. 21, 2025

Legume hordes like clover pull nitrogen from the air, reducing the use of chemical fertilisers, and the milking parlour is 80-percent solar- and wind-powered.

From Barron's • Nov. 11, 2025

Reflecting on the possible reason, she said "I know I am not in the in-crowd. I don't play some of the parlour games".

From BBC • Oct. 25, 2025

Speaking to BBC Newsnight, the couple said they discovered Ms Upton had kept their daughter's body at her home, six miles away from the funeral parlour where they believed her body was being looked after.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

He and I were the only occupants of the parlour: Diana was practising her music in the drawing-room, Mary was gardening—it was a very fine May day, clear, sunny, and breezy.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë