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(1):

(n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.

(2):

(n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, - a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.

(3):

(n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.

(4):

(n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Parlor'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​p/parlor.html. 1828.
 
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