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• n  reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received
• n  a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax

• There is an old-fashioned parlor game in which one person starts a story, another carries it on to a certain point, a third, fourth, fifth, et cetera, continues it, and the last .
• A thought-experiment: What would become of the earth if humanity were to softly and silently and suddenly vanish away? What starts as a morbid parlor game becomes a mesmerizing and .
• The Big Cypress bingo parlor is a corrugated-tin warehouse the size of an airplane hangar.

• parlour
• living room
• living-room
• sitting room
• front room

News & Articles

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• Lawrence massage parlor owner blackmailed workers in performing sex acts on clients, prosecutor says
  LAWRENCE -- Four woman hired as receptionists at a massage parlor said the owner lured them into prostitution and forced them to continue under the threat of blackmail, prosecutors say.        
  June 12, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Raynham Park strikes deal with town over slot machine parlor
  A slot machine parlor at Raynham Park, the simulcast betting facility and former dog racing track, would pay the town annual fees of more than $1.1 million per year under a negotiated agreement between the developer and town officials, according to a statement from track officials.        
  June 12, 2013 - Boston Globe
• Raynham board backs slots parlor
  The town of Raynham would get $1 million a year cash from a proposed slots parlor at Raynham Park under a deal that was unanimously backed tonight by selectmen. The former dog track, which hosts simulcast racing and is seeking a state slots license, put forth a deal to the Raynham Board of Selectmen tonight that calls for the track to pay the town $1 million-a-year for the first three years of ...
  June 12, 2013 - Boston Herald

Quotes

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• John Kerry in Forbes
  Not in the least,Kerry, the Democratic presidential nominee in 2004, said when asked if the furor over his comment had caused him to reconsider a 2008 race. "The parlor game of who's up, who's down, today or tomorrow, if I listened to that...
• John Ratzenberger in KCCI.com
  I met Paul Newman when I was a junior in high school, when I was the houseman in a billiard parlor in Westport, Conn.,Ratzenberger recalled. "He came in to shoot pool one night. I met him that one night and never saw him again, so I'm...
• Simon Cowell in Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription)
  Simon said: "It had all the joy of someone singing in a funeral parlor."