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a building, room, or suite of rooms occupied by a service business an ice cream parlor with an old-timey theme

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Recent Examples of parlor Its lower floors featured elegant communal parlors for entertaining guests, while the upper floors housed more modest sleeping quarters. Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Mar. 2025 Fringed lampshades and claw-foot tubs sustain a sleek bordello mood in the rooms, and downstairs, lavish parlors showcase folk art exhibits, a coffee counter, and a dreamy, dark saloon scene. Jenny Adams, AFAR Media, 11 Feb. 2025 Other penny arcades and mutoscope parlors followed Mensing’s model, often making improvements. Michael Wells, Kansas City Star, 28 Feb. 2025 Rosario also tried to leak intel to the Nassau County D.A.’s office’s organized crime unit to shut down rival ambling parlors, according to the feds. John Annese, New York Daily News, 28 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for parlor
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  • Public officials must understand where people need to walk and make those places safer.
    Megha Satyanarayana, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2025
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    Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 21 Mar. 2025
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  • As fewer clean energy manufacturing facilities are built, construction activity dries up, costing jobs and cutting income across the board.
    Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology, Forbes, 23 Mar. 2025
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    Ingrid Vasquez, People.com, 22 Mar. 2025
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  • The latest blow came Friday, when the White House issued a fact sheet implying Trump signed an order undoing Biden’s establishment of Chuckwalla National Monument in the California desert, and Sáttítla Highlands National Monument in Northern California.
    Sammy Roth, Los Angeles Times, 18 Mar. 2025
  • Wrote the court: The State’s establishment of a religious charter school violates Oklahoma statutes Oklahoma Constitution, and the Establishment Clause.
    Peter Greene, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

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“Parlor.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/parlor. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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