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Parlor vs Parker - What's the difference?

parlor | parker |

As nouns the difference between parlor and parker

is that parlor is while parker is a park-keeper.

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

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    parker

    English

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • for a gamekeeper.
  • , transferred from the surname.

    • Derived terms

    * Parkeresque * Parkerian * Parkerism

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A Parker-brand pen.
  • * 1969 , Laurie Lee, As I walked out one midsummer morning
    • At most street corners one would be offered exotic items of merchandise unavailable anywhere else in Spain - mouldy chocolate, laddered stockings, damp American cigarettes, leaky Parkers , and fake Swiss watches.

    See also

    * nosey parker