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parlor

noun as in sitting room

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There was the enormous dairy barn, the milking parlor, the workshop, the machine shed.

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But before Enea can relax, Anna is rattling off a series of dreams for the future — perhaps the family opens a Halloween-inspired pizza parlor, or maybe a “haunted” home that can be rented out.

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Today, the tiny community of about 600 households has a tattoo parlor, a bunch of in-home businesses and a few churches.

Two floors above the dining room and kitchen is the “parlor level,” which features two parlor spaces, both of which have their own fireplace, as well as mahogany floors.

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He made a once-popular parlor instrument brand new, punching every piano roll himself and then letting the machine play faster than any dozen real-life pianists could, making for palpable Niagaras of sound.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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