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Answer for the clue "Parlour game involving finding rhymes to a given word ", 6 letters:
crambo

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Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Crambo is a rhyming game which, according to Joseph Strutt , was played as early as the fourteenth century under the name of the ABC of Aristotle . It is also known as Capping the rhyme . The name may also be used to describe a doggerel poem which exhausts ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A guessing game in which players guess words that rhyme with a clue word, seeking a word that is kept secret or concealed. 2 A word rhyming with another word.

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Crambo \Cram"bo\ (-b[-o]), n. [Cf. Cramp , a., difficult.] A game in which one person gives a word, to which another finds a rhyme. I saw in one corner . . . a cluster of men and women, diverting themselves with a game at crambo. I heard several double ...

Usage examples of crambo.

Then to crambo, wherein by tagging and rich to Sandwich I was adjudged winner, the more so for playing on his earlier munificence.