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parlour game
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A parlour game is a group game played indoors. During the Victorian era in Great Britain and in the United States , these games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes. They were often played in a parlour , hence the name. "The Victorian ...
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alt. 1 Any of a number of amusing games played indoors with few props by the members of a social gathering. 2 (context politics figuratively English) The use of deliberately nebulous or confusing language. n. 1 Any of a number of amusing games played indoors ...
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n. a game suitable for playing in a parlor [syn: parlor game ]
Usage examples of parlour game.
Where is it, this swamp of ambiguity, paradox, anarchy they're calling aporia his book right here somewhere probably at the bottom of the pile it was a game they played, the Greeks, a game you couldn't win, nobody could win, a parlour game proposing questions there was no clear answer to so winning wasn't the point of it no, no that's ours isn't it, right on the money because that's what the game is, the only game in town because that's what America's wait, little card there falling on the, there!
So the humiliated scientist, all of whose quips and quiddities had been knocked out of him in the last hour, fetched the burnt manuscript from the fender and handed round a collection of such slips as were still legible, as if it had been a parlour game in earnest.
Laura and I stood watching him together, our arms around each other, but wooden and foolish as though we were playing some parlour game that required us to freeze in midaction.
These phenomena have passed through the stage of being a parlour game.