Ice-cream and beauty

Usage examples of parlors.

All in all, thought Chase, Cameron had been wise not to take a house in Washington, preferring the barrooms and the parlors and the barbershops of Willard’s, where he could prowl like some lord of the jungle.

The draperies swayed again in a warm draft and both of the chandeliers of the double parlors danced in the shadows, full of splinters of white light, now that the fire had died and taken with it the colors.

And where is that coffin to be, by the way, did my cousin Fielding have the decency to say, or are you supposed to call funeral parlors on your own until you discover it?

I remember now that night as distinctly as all else because it was my last in Storyville, listening to the jazz bands, and singing, and taking the children with me right into the fancy parlors of the brothels.

Ever since he was fourteen, he had had the run of Sal Austin’s parlors, where the most attractive girls in the city could be found.

To the left and the right of the vestibule were parlors, elaborately furnished with mahogany and walnut.

The high-ceilinged room was cool because the sunlight was diffused by shutters, while red gauze hung between the front and back parlors, making rosy the room’s light.

He had enjoyed visiting her in those rose-lit, rose-scented parlors where, now, a dozen very angry Southern ladies were quartered along with Rose, under lock and key.

There was seldom much noise in Sal’s parlors, other than the black pianist who was, on occasion, accompanied by one of the girls who played, most soulfully, the violin.

He had visited Sal Austin a number of times, ostensibly to chat with her on a Sunday afternoon but, actually, to try to discover who frequented her parlors and her beds.

It was replaced by morphine when the new injectable needle became the rage, but not before cannabis brought with it healthful elixirs and patent medicines, luxuriant Turkish Smoking Parlors, and with them a fountain of literary creativity.

Louis, New Orleans, and so on The Police Gazette estimated there were more than 500 hashish smoking parlors in New York City in the 1880s and it was estimated by the NYPD that there were still 500 or more hashish parlors in N.

But he didn't have to abolish the old scheme of double parlors, did he?

Mayfairs had rooms with parlors here, and little kitchens where they could make their own microwave coffee, or store their ice cream.

They were gathered in the double parlors – Mona, Lauren, Lily and Fielding.