• Parloir

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    From .

    Full definition of parloir

    Noun

    parloir

    (plural parloirs)
    1. 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.

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