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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 par·lour /ˈpɑrlɚ/
 客廳,會客室,特別室(a.)客廳的

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
 

From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 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]

From: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

 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.