Parloir
Origin
From .
Full definition of parloir
Noun
parloir
(plural parloirs)- A room set aside for visitors in a monastery or convent, where they can talk to residents. from 18th c.
- 1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview Press 2002, p. 111:The first to which we went was a convent of Benedictine Nuns. When we had entered the gates we rang a bell, and a servant appeared, and desired us to go up stairs to the parloir.