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名詞

parlour (plural parlours)

1. Commonwealth standard spelling of parlor.
   • 1829, Mary Howitt, The Spider and the Fly, published 1853:

     Will you walk into my parlour, said a Spider to a Fly; / 'Tis the prettiest little parlour that ever you did spy.

   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC:

     At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors. […] In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.

派生語

語源

Borrowed from Old French parleor, parloir, parleoir, from Old French parler (“to speak”); equivalent to parlen +‎ -our.

発音

• IPA: /parˈluːr/, /ˈparlur/

名詞

parlour (plural parlours)

1. A room for private use, usually to the side of a building's main room.
2. A room or opening for monastics to communicate with laypeople.
3. (rare) A room for discussion; a meeting room.

派生した語

• English: parlor, parlour
• Scots: parlour

参照

• “parlǒur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.