par·lour /ˈpɑrlɚ/
 客廳,會客室,特別室(a.)客廳的
 Par·lor n.  [Written also parlour.]
 1. A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically: (a) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without. --Piers Plowman. (b) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor. (c) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained;  a room in a private house where people can sit and talk and relax, not usually the same as the dining room.
 Note: ☞ “In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till recently.”
 Parlor car. See Palace car, under Car.
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 parlour
      n 1: reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be
           received [syn: parlor]
      2: a room in a private house or establishment where people can
         sit and talk and relax [syn: living room, living-room,
          sitting room, front room, parlor]
 Parlour
    (from the Fr. parler, "to speak") denotes an "audience chamber,"
    but that is not the import of the Hebrew word so rendered. It
    corresponds to what the Turks call a kiosk, as in Judg. 3:20
    (the "summer parlour"), or as in the margin of the Revised
    Version ("the upper chamber of cooling"), a small room built on
    the roof of the house, with open windows to catch the breeze,
    and having a door communicating with the outside by which
    persons seeking an audience may be admitted. While Eglon was
    resting in such a parlour, Ehud, under pretence of having a
    message from God to him, was admitted into his presence, and
    murderously plunged his dagger into his body (21, 22).
      The "inner parlours" in 1 Chr. 28:11 were the small rooms or
    chambers which Solomon built all round two sides and one end of
    the temple (1 Kings 6:5), "side chambers;" or they may have
    been, as some think, the porch and the holy place.
      In 1 Sam. 9:22 the Revised Version reads "guest chamber," a
    chamber at the high place specially used for sacrificial feasts.