noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
massage parlour
milking parlour
parlour game
parlour maid
tattoo parlour
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
front
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We'd just sit around in the front parlour of my house and smoke Typhoo Tea in my dad's pipe.
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He's in the front parlour .
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To do the Cafe Posta properly, one repairs to the antique-filled back room; front parlour strictly for tourists.
■ NOUN
funeral
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He covers himself in rose-water all the time so that the place smells like a funeral parlour .
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It was a testimonial for a funeral parlour which had dealt with the victims of a forest fire.
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But what could be more important than his appointment as chairman of the largest and most prestigious funeral parlour in the city?
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At three in the morning I wake up with a start and think I am in a funeral parlour .
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There were five cars from the funeral parlour following the coffin.
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I followed him into the funeral parlour , where we were greeted by a businesslike undertaker.
game
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He was not physically robust and his main recreation was playing bridge and parlour games .
massage
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Finally he got up from his desk and walked out into the foyer of the massage parlour .
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Violet Mapping had been running this massage parlour for five years.
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Two years to the day after the brutal killing, three women were working in the former Pinky's Massage parlour .
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Backward, and yet forward A principled, worldwide massage parlour owned by everybody: doesn't that sound better?
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Her bloodstained body was found at Pinky's massage parlour , Boughton, where she worked.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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After supper Mrs Hendry ushered everyone into the parlour .
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I showed her into the parlour .
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It was ours though, and Mrs Logue's parlour had been getting a bit rough lately.
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Paul strode towards the parlour , his misery forgotten.
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She led me into a parlour .
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The parlour opens into a small courtyard, where there is constant activity.
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The floor was of the same beaten earth as in the parlour .
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When the time came to unite Santosh with his parents, he was called into the parlour .