a sitting room in a private house
they had lunch in the parlour
she knocked on the parlour door
a room in a public building for receiving guests
the mayor's parlour
a shop or business providing specified goods or services
an ice-cream parlour
a funeral parlour
a room or building equipped for milking cows
denoting a person who professes belief in but does not actively support a specified (especially radical) political view
urban intellectuals and parlour revolutionaries