as in place
a building, room, or suite of rooms occupied by a service business an ice cream parlor with an old-timey theme

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Recent Examples of parlor Another vending machine at the parlor serves up a variety of soda and juice options including Mountain Dew, coffee and Coca Cola. Sacbee.com, 27 Sep. 2025 My husband has his parlor, his billiard room, and his theater, so this will be my corner of peace and joy. Victoria Uwumarogie, Essence, 25 Sep. 2025 Dixie Chili has history Dixie's Newport location is the oldest continually operating chili parlor in Greater Cincinnati. Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati Enquirer, 22 Sep. 2025 More athletes followed, getting very large tattoos that would otherwise have needed to be created across multiple sessions in a parlor, with bouts of healing in between—an arduous process that can take many weeks to complete. John Semley, The Atlantic, 22 Sep. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parlor
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Noun
  • Trump also revoked Bolton's security detail, which was in place because of threats from Iran.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
  • How does a company become—and stay—a great place to work?
    Diane Brady, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Headquartered in Dallas, Aligned is a fast-growing hyperscale operator that provides cloud infrastructure across some 50 facilities.
    Andrew Nusca, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2025
  • In April that year, an explosion at the facility killed one worker and injured four others, CNN affiliate WSMV reported.
    Isabel Rosales, CNN Money, 16 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • But with the 21st century came the 2008 financial crisis -- as well as the Occupy Wall Street and Tea Party movements that emerged from it -- and Americans began questioning the economic establishment from both the right and the left.
    Halle Troadec, ABC News, 10 Oct. 2025
  • For the first time since its establishment, question marks are being raised about the very legitimacy of the State of Israel.
    Ehud Barak, Time, 10 Oct. 2025

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“Parlor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlor. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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