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means A room in a house kept nicely furnished and set aside for sitting with visitors, rather than everyday family living.

from Comes from Old French 'parlour/parloir,' meaning a place for speaking, rooted in 'parler,' to speak — itself from Latin 'parabolare,' to talk, which traces back to 'parabola,' a comparison or speech. The word started life in monasteries, naming the one room where silent monks were permitted to converse with outsiders. It carried that sense of a formal, set-apart talking-room into private homes, where it became the good room reserved for company — talk, not living, was its original job.