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Pallor vs Parlor - What's the difference?

pallor | parlor |

As nouns the difference between pallor and parlor

is that pallor is paleness; want of color; pallidity while parlor is the living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking.

pallor

English

Alternative forms

* pallour

Noun

(pallors)
  • Paleness; want of color; pallidity.
  • pallor of the complexion
  • *1886 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Strange Case Of Dr Jekyll And Mr Hyde)
  • *:"Sir," said the butler, turning to a sort of mottled pallor , "that thing was not my master, and there's the truth. My master"--here he looked round him and began to whisper--"is a tall, fine build of a man, and this was more of a dwarf."
  • References

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    parlor

    English

    Alternative forms

    * parlour (British)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking.
  • *, chapter=12
  • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor . 'Twas a dismal sort of place, with hair wreaths, and wax fruit, and tin lambrekins, and land knows what all.}}
  • (label) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the residents are permitted to meet and converse with each other or with visitors from the outside.
  • A room for lounging; a sitting-room; a drawing room.
  • (label) A comfortable room in a public house.
  • A covered open-air patio.
  • A shop or other business selling goods specified by context.
  • A shed used for milking cattle.
  • Derived terms

    * beauty parlor * beer parlor * betting parlor * funeral parlor * ice cream parlor * massage parlor * parlormaid * parlor game * parlor trick * pigs in the parlour