parlo(u)r

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a room in which a hotel is licensed to sell beer; beverage room.

Quotations

1959

The woman with whom she stayed took her out to a card game in a club and afterwards they gave Reva her first beer in a nearby parlour.

1962

. . . saloons . . . at times euphemistically described as "parlors," have always been numerous factors in every western town. . . .