parlour
noun/ˈpɑrlər/
Frequency rank: #11,308 of 20,003 in the WORDED list (wordfreq data)
Meaning
a sitting room in a private house used for receiving visitors.
Example sentence
After dinner, the family invited their neighbors into the parlour to look at the old photo albums.
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