0 a business that provides a stated type of personal service or sells a stated product:
1 (especially in the past) a room in a private house used for relaxing, especially one that was kept clean and neat for entertaining guests:
the front parlor
2 a store that sells a stated product, or a business that provides a stated service:
3 a room in a private house used esp. for entertaining guests:
the front parlor
The darkened parlor of the seance invited and embodied the disruption of the ordinary.
On a miniature scale, the conservatory becomes a decorative object among the other furnishings of a parlor or drawing room.
It was an undertaker parlor next door to the theater, and we were supposed to stay in some rooms they had upstairs there.
That should mean she was a communist in the safety of her parlor.
Now that the elephant has occupied the parlor, scholars are inquiring whence it came.
These contradictory qualities made it more, not less, dazzling as the center of the parlor.
These pictures occupied the same discursive space: both fashion journal and photo album might have sat on the same fringed table in the parlor, to be perused in turn.
Taking clients to the funeral parlor prior to the service is often helpful in decreasing anxiety about what to expect and gives them the opportunity to ask questions.
