parlour

Example Sentences

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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

He set up in Magherafelt in 2018 before moving above an ice cream parlour in the County Tyrone town.

From BBC • Oct. 7, 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

With that I hurried on, and it was not until I had all but reached the kitchen doors that the darkness falling again in the corridor told me Miss Kenton had closed her parlour door.

From "The Remains of the Day" by Kazuo Ishiguro