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bar parlour

bar parlour noun: a small, often cozier, section within a larger pub or inn, distinct from the main bar area.

Noun

bar parlour (plural bar parlours)

  1. A small, often cozier, section within a larger pub or inn, distinct from the main bar area.
    • I was feeling wilted and dry after some hours in the driving cab with the sun on it. I suggested that we might remove discussion from the middle of the street to some more congenial spot. We passed round their trucks through a familiar litter of cases of biscuits, chests of tea, sides of bacon...1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 192

Forms of bar parlour

pluralbar parlours

Questions about bar parlour

What does bar parlour mean?
Bar parlour means a small, often cozier, section within a larger pub or inn, distinct from the main bar area.
What part of speech is bar parlour?
Bar parlour is a noun.
What is the plural of bar parlour?
The plural of bar parlour is bar parlours.

Words near bar parlour in the dictionary

  1. bar of chocolate
  2. bar off
  3. bar out
  4. bar pad
  5. bar pads
  6. bar parlour
  7. bar parlours
  8. bar phone
  9. bar phones
  10. bar point
  11. bar review

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