Meaning of best parlour | Babel Free

Definitions

A parlour or drawing room that is furnished especially well and often reserved for entertaining guests.

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Examples

“He then conveyed him and his sister into the veriest old well of a shivering best-parlour that ever was seen, where the maps upon the wall, and the celestial and terrestrial globes in the windows, were waxy with cold.”

“He furnished it beautiful, every room like a best parlor, — carpets and sofys and lace curt'ins, — there was nothing too good.”

“For it was not by any means every farmhouse that had a best parlour at all, and none possessed one as pretty as that of Madame Marcel, the farmer's wife.”

“The room was reminiscent of a seaside best parlour—red plush everywhere, and antimacassars and boxes made of shell, and innumerable mugs and lurid vases, and pots of artificial flowers of every conceivable colour which could possibly swear at the plush.”

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