parlour
parlour — noun
1. a small shop, often named after the product or treatment it offers, where custom
a small shop, often named after the product or treatment it offers, where customers go to buy that one thing or have that one kind of grooming or beauty work done.
The new ice-cream parlour on Kingston Road serves twenty homemade flavours.
compound: ice-cream parlour
Maya booked a manicure at the nail parlour next to her office.
compound: nail parlour
Marcus went into the tattoo parlour to have a small star drawn on his wrist.
After school, the children walked to the sweet parlour for sherbet and chocolate.
The funeral parlour on Bridge Street has been run by the same family for sixty years.
文法句型
[type] + parlour
parlour for [activity]
用法筆記
Almost always preceded by a noun naming the product or service: ice-cream / beauty / nail / tattoo / funeral / pizza parlour. Standing alone without that noun is rare in this sense.
常見錯誤
2. an old-fashioned word for a sitting room in someone's home, especially the smart
an old-fashioned word for a sitting room in someone's home, especially the smartest one near the front door, kept clean and ready so that visitors could be welcomed in.
Grandmother polished the piano in the front parlour every Saturday morning.
phrase: front parlour
The vicar was shown into the parlour and offered a cup of tea.
passive welcome: shown into the parlour
Heavy velvet curtains and a marble fireplace gave the Victorian parlour a solemn feel.
Children were not allowed in the parlour unless guests had arrived.
Lina remembers her aunt knitting by the fire in the small parlour at the back of the cottage.
- sitting room
the standard British modern term
- living room
neutral and current in both British and American English
- drawing room
even grander and more formal than parlour; large houses only
文法句型
in the parlour
the front parlour
用法筆記
Mostly historical or regional. In modern British and American homes, 'living room' or 'sitting room' has replaced it. Often appears with 'front', 'back' or 'best' to mark which room of the house is meant.