Parlor vs Restaurant - What's the difference?
parlor | restaurant |
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 eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.
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, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
As nouns the difference between parlor and restaurant
is that parlor is the living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking while restaurant is an eating establishment in which diners are served food at their tables.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
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(en noun)George Goodchild
