best parlour
best parlour noun: a parlour or drawing room that is furnished especially well and often reserved for entertaining guests.
Noun
best parlour (plural best parlours)
- A parlour or drawing room that is furnished especially well and often reserved for entertaining guests.
- He then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “Stave Two. The First of the Three Spirits.”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC, page 55
- He furnished it beautiful, every room like a best parlor, — carpets and sofys and lace curt'ins, — there was nothing too good.1891, Laura E[lizabeth Howe] Richards, “The House in the Wood”, in Hildegarde's Holiday: A Sequel to Queen Hildegarde, Boston, M.A.: Estes and Lauriat Publishers, page 215
Forms of best parlour
| plural | best parlours |
|---|---|
| alternative form | best-parlour |
| alternative form | best parlor |
| alternative form | best-parlor |
Questions about best parlour
- What does best parlour mean?
- Best parlour means a parlour or drawing room that is furnished especially well and often reserved for entertaining guests.
- What part of speech is best parlour?
- Best parlour is a noun.
- What is the plural of best parlour?
- The plural of best parlour is best parlours.
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