What is "parlor"

Parlor \Par"lor\, n. [OE. parlour, parlur, F. parloir, LL. parlatorium. See Parley.] [Written also parlour.]

1. A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc. Specifically:

   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.
      --Piers Plowman.

   2. In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.

   3. Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained; a room in a private house where people can sit and talk and relax, not usually the same as the dining room.

      Note: ``In England people who have a drawing-room no longer call it a parlor, as they called it of old and till recently.''
      --Fitzed. Hall.

2. A room in an inn or club where visitors can be received.

   Parlor car. See Palace car, under Car.

c.1200, parlur, "window through which confessions were made," also "apartment in a monastery for conversations with outside persons;" from Old French parleor "courtroom, judgment hall, auditorium" (12c., Modern French parloir), from parler "to speak" (see parley (n.)).\n

\nSense of "sitting room for private conversation" is late 14c.; that of "show room for a business" (as in ice cream parlor) first recorded 1884. As an adjective, "advocating radical views from a position of comfort," 1910.

n. The living room of a house, or a room for entertaining guests; a room for talking.

1. n. reception room in an inn or club where visitors can be received [syn: parlour]

2. a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax [syn: living room, living-room, sitting room, front room, parlour]

Anarchy Parlor is a 2014 horror film and the directorial debut of Devon Downs and Kenny Gage, both of whom also wrote the film's script. It had its world premiere on October 14, 2014 at the Screamfest Horror Film Festival and was shot over a 20-day period in Vilnius, Lithuania.