parlour 音标拼音: [p'ɑrlɚ]
n . 客厅,会客室,特别室
a . 客厅的
客厅,会客室,特别室客厅的
parlour n 1 :
reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received [
synonym : {
parlor }, {
parlour }]
2 :
a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax [
synonym : {
living room }, {
living -
room },
{
sitting room }, {
front room }, {
parlor }, {
parlour }]
Parlor \
Par "
lor \,
n . [
OE .
parlour ,
parlur ,
F .
parloir ,
LL .
parlatorium .
See {
Parley }.] [
Written also {
parlour }.]
1 .
A room for business or social conversation ,
for the reception of guests ,
etc .
Specifically :
(
a )
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 .
--
Piers Plowman .
(
b )
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 .
(
c )
Commonly ,
in the United States ,
a drawing -
room ,
or the room where visitors are received and entertained ;
a room in a private house where people can sit and talk and relax ,
not usually the same as the dining room .
[
1913 Webster PJC ]
Note : "
In England people who have a drawing -
room no longer call it a parlor ,
as they called it of old and till recently ." --
Fitzed .
Hall .
[
1913 Webster ]
2 .
A room in an inn or club where visitors can be received .
[
WordNet 1 .
5 ]
{
Parlor car }.
See {
Palace car },
under {
Car }.
[
1913 Webster ]
parlour \
parlour \
n .
1 .
Same as {
parlor }.
Syn :
living room ,
sitting room ,
front room ,
parlor .
[
WordNet 1 .
5 ]
2 .
A room in an inn or club where visitors can be received .
Syn :
parlor .
[
WordNet 1 .
5 ]
Parlour (
from the Fr .
parler , "
to speak ")
denotes an "
audience chamber ,"
but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered .
It corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk ,
as in Judg .
3 :
20 (
the "
summer parlour "),
or as in the margin of the Revised Version ("
the upper chamber of cooling "),
a small room built on the roof of the house ,
with open windows to catch the breeze ,
and having a door communicating with the outside by which persons seeking an audience may be admitted .
While Eglon was resting in such a parlour ,
Ehud ,
under pretence of having a message from God to him ,
was admitted into his presence ,
and murderously plunged his dagger into his body (
21 ,
22 ).
The "
inner parlours "
in 1 Chr .
28 :
11 were the small rooms or chambers which Solomon built all round two sides and one end of the temple (
1 Kings 6 :
5 ), "
side chambers ;"
or they may have been ,
as some think ,
the porch and the holy place .
In 1 Sam .
9 :
22 the Revised Version reads "
guest chamber ,"
a chamber at the high place specially used for sacrificial feasts .
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