Pär'lor, n.
n. [Fr. parloir, It. & Sp. parlatorio, from Fr. parler, Pr. & Sp. parlar, It. parlare, to speak. See PARLEY.] [Written also parloir.]
Sense 1. The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
Sense 2. A room in a house which the family usually occupy for society and conversation, the reception-room of visitors, &c., as distinguished from the hall, the dining-room, the kitchen, the library, and the like; sometimes, the best room of a house, kept for receiving company, as distinguished from the sitting-room of the family.