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[Middle English parlur, from Old French, from parler, to talk. See parley.]
1. In a house, a room primarily for entertaining and conversing with guests.
2. In a hotel, a room for receptions.
'Will you walk into my parlor?' said a spider to a fly:
— Mary Howitt, Source: The Spider and the Fly
Parlour (or parlor), from the French word parloir, from 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.
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.
In medieval Christian usage, the parlour was the room in a monastery or convent where the monks or nuns could receive a visitor. Because the order required silence much of the day from those living in it, that they could speak with these visitors was a distinguishing trait from other rooms.
In modern use, the parlour is a formal sitting room in a large house or mansion. In the late nineteenth century, was a formal room to be used only on Sundays or special occasions, and locked during the week. The parlour contained a family's best furnishings, works of art and other display items. The body of a member of the household who had recently deceased would be laid out in the parlour while funeral preparations were made. In more modest homes, the parlour has largely been replaced by the living room as a result of a twentieth-century effort by architects and builders to strip the parlour of its burial and mourning associations.
This entry incorporates text from the public domain Easton's Bible Dictionary, originally published in 1897.
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Dansk (Danish)
n. - dagligstue, salon
adj. - salon-
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Nederlands (Dutch)
salon, spreek-/ conversatiekamer, melkhuisje
Français (French)
n. - salon, parloir
adj. - de salon
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Deutsch (German)
n. - Salon, Wohnzimmer
adj. - Wohnzimmer...
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Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - αίθουσα υποδοχής, σαλόνι, (πολυτελής) αίθουσα πελατών επιχειρήσεως
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Italiano (Italian)
parlatorio, salotto, bottega, salone, negozio
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Português (Portuguese)
n. - salão (m), sala de visitas (f)
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Русский (Russian)
гостиная, заведение
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Español (Spanish)
n. - salón, sala de recibo
adj. - de salón
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Svenska (Swedish)
n. - salong, sällskapsrum
中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
客厅, 特别室, 会客室, 客厅的
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中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 客廳, 特別室, 會客室
adj. - 客廳的
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한국어 (Korean)
n. - 객실, 응접실, 면회실
adj. - 객실의, 응접실에 적합한, 말뿐인
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 客間の, 口先だけの, 客間, 居間, 面会室, 搾乳所, 営業室
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العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) الردهه, قاعهالاستقبال في فندق أو بيت, دار, مؤسسه تجاريه
עברית (Hebrew)
n. - חדר-אורחים, סלון, חנות למוצרים מסוימים, חדר מגורים במלון או במנזר, מחלבה
adj. - של סלון (לא מעשי, מסתפק בדיבורים)
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