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best parlours

best parlours is the plural of best parlour.

Meaning of best parlour

Noun

best parlour (plural best parlours)

  1. (dated) 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

Questions about best parlours

What is best parlours the plural of?
Best parlours is the plural of best parlour.

Words near best parlours in the dictionary

  1. best off
  2. best on ground
  3. best on grounds
  4. best one can
  5. best parlour
  6. best parlours
  7. best part of
  8. best pleased
  9. best practice
  10. best practices
  11. best regards

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