Parlor vs Pavilion - What's the difference?
parlor | pavilion |
The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking.
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, title= (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.
an ornate tent
a light roofed structure used as a shelter in a public place
a structure, sometimes temporary, erected to house exhibits at a fair, etc
(cricket) the building where the players change clothes, wait to bat, and eat their meals
a detached or semi-detached building at a hospital or other building complex
the lower surface of a brilliant-cut gemstone, lying between the girdle and collet
(anatomy) the cartiliginous part of the outer ear; auricle
(anatomy) The fimbriated extremity of the Fallopian tube.
(military) A flag, ensign, or banner.
(heraldry) A tent used as a bearing.
A covering; a canopy; figuratively, the sky.
* Shelley
to furnish with a pavilion
to put inside a pavilion
(figuratively) to enclose or surround (after Robert Grant's hymn line "pavilioned in splendour")
As nouns the difference between parlor and pavilion
is that parlor is while pavilion is an ornate tent.As a verb pavilion is
to furnish with a pavilion.parlor
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Alternative forms
* parlour (British)Noun
(en noun)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.}}
Derived terms
* beauty parlor * beer parlor * betting parlor * funeral parlor * ice cream parlor * massage parlor * parlormaid * parlor game * parlor trick * pigs in the parlourExternal links
* * *pavilion
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Noun
(en noun)- The pavilion of heaven is bare.