chili parlor
chili parlor noun: a diner or restaurant featuring dishes like chili con carne, either as a house specialty or a selection of various different recipes.
Noun
chili parlor (plural chili parlors)
- A diner or restaurant featuring dishes like chili con carne, either as a house specialty or a selection of various different recipes.
- A restaurant that specializes in Cincinnati chili and related dishes such as cheese coneys.
- This is a cafeteria, not a chili parlor. … The classic chili parlor: grungy, but not hard-core dirty. … The decor is more that of a sandwich shop than a chili parlor. … This restaurant suffers from an identity crisis — it is half urban chili parlor, half suburban chili parlor. Half new booths, half...1978 October, “Rating Cincinnati Chili”, in Cincinnati, pages 62–64
- The earliest chili parlor to pop up in downtown Cincinnati after Empress was owned by Macedonian immigrant Paul Taleff. … The Taleff family would be in the chili parlor restaurant business for more than thirty years.2013 April 16, Dann Woellert, The Authentic History of Cincinnati Chili, Charleston, South Carolina: Arcadia Publishing, →ISBN, page 144
Forms of chili parlor
| plural | chili parlors |
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Origin of chili parlor
From chili + parlor.
Questions about chili parlor
- What does chili parlor mean?
- Chili parlor means a diner or restaurant featuring dishes like chili con carne, either as a house specialty or a selection of various different recipes.
- What part of speech is chili parlor?
- Chili parlor is a noun.
- What is the plural of chili parlor?
- The plural of chili parlor is chili parlors.
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