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parlour guitar

parlour guitar is the alternative spelling of parlor guitar.

Meaning of parlor guitar

Noun

parlor guitar (plural parlor guitars)

  1. A kind of small acoustic guitar, originally meant to be played (often by women) in the parlor of a Victorian-era home; more modern models are still used today, commonly in folk music.

Forms of parlour guitar

pluralparlour guitars

Questions about parlour guitar

What is parlour guitar the alternative spelling of?
Parlour guitar is the alternative spelling of parlor guitar.

Words near parlour guitar in the dictionary

  1. parlour boarders
  2. parlour car
  3. parlour cars
  4. parlour game
  5. parlour games
  6. parlour guitar
  7. parlour guitars
  8. parlour LARP
  9. parlour LARPs
  10. parlour match
  11. parlour matches

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Adapted from Wiktionary: parlour guitar (page history and authors); parlor guitar (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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