Meanings
nounparloir (plural parloirs)
plural parloirs
- A room set aside for visitors in a monastery or convent, where they can talk to residents.First known use 18th c.
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.
1790, Helen Maria Williams, Letters Written in France, Broadview Press, published 2002, page 111
Origin
- Frenchparloir“parlor”
- Englishparloir
From French parloir (“parlor”). Doublet of parlor.
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