parlor

IPA: pˈɑrɫɝ

The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking; a sitting-room or drawing room
(archaic) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
(archaic) A comfortable room in a public house.
(chiefly Southern US) A covered open-air patio.
A shop or other business selling goods or services specified by context.
A shed used for milking cattle.
(Philippines) Short for beauty parlor. [(US, Philippines) A salon where hairdressers, beauticians, and cosmeticians work.]

Examples of "parlor" in Sentences

The term parlor generally denotes something other than massage within the industry.
That spending a trillion dollars to move the revenues from Social Security into the betting parlor is a way to make it solvent?
You have one room which you call the parlor, supposed to be the best in the house, as to its location, its finish, its furniture, and its use.
John Boehner, who looks like he suffers from a perennial case of ulcers and excessive visits to a tanning parlor, is leading the charge of his pale-faced Republicans.
This he had placed in what he called the parlor that morning, after dusting it carefully and putting a fresh pillow case on the scanty pillow where Amy's head had lain.
Up the Yangtze – My favorite order at the Asian massage parlor is now a documentary about the devastating effects of the Three Gorges Dam in China (bought by Zeitgeist, scheduled for April release).
I've heard Hillary Clinton tell the story many times in speeches, and it rarely fails to bring a horrified gasp from the crowd: An uninsured and pregnant Ohio woman, working for minimum wage at a pizza parlor, is turned away from a hospital because she can't come up with $100.