( <美> parlor)
1
- dated a sitting room in a private house〈旧〉客厅, 起居室。
1.1
- a room in a public building for receiving guests会客室; 接待室：
the mayor's parlour.
市长接待室。
1.2
- a room in a monastery or convent that is set aside for conversation（修道院的）谈话室。
2
- usu. with modifier chiefly N. Amer. a shop or business providing specified goods or services〈主北美〉店堂：
an ice-cream parlour
冷饮店
a funeral parlour.
殡仪馆。
3
- （亦作milking parlour）a room or building equipped for milking cows挤牛奶的房间。
attrib.
- dated, derogatory denoting a person who professes but does not actively give support for a specified (especially radical) political view〈旧, 贬〉空有激进政治观点的; 空谈而无行动的：
the so-called radicalism of the new 'parlour communists'.
新“空谈共产主义者”的所谓激进主义。
词源
Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French parlur 'place for speaking', from Latin parlare 'speak'.