(n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
(n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
(n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.
(n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
Example Sentences:
(1) A total of 87 cervical specimens of unselected female sex workers in massage parlors were tested by an enzyme amplified immunoassay IDEIA Chlamydia test and cell culture for the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis.
(2) Data were obtained by a massage parlor worker--an unnamed coauthor--who recorded information about every personal customer during her initial period of work.
(3) Here’s a sex freak father, hanging around with whores and massage parlors and swinging and all that,” he said, of the rumors that spread about him.
(4) Water was offered for 10 min at 1300 h to simulate time in a milking parlor.
(5) Culicoides insignis was recovered from samples taken from muddy areas in pastures and margins of vegetated ponds, whereas C. variipennis was collected around waste lagoons and from mud contaminated by effluent from milking parlors.
(6) Parlor throughput was greatest for gel and wash treatments.
(7) Even if you changed the fashion show to a car show and the beauty parlor to a gym, it’s hard to imagine how you could take the camp out of the script.
(8) He reports having had a variety of heterosexual experiences in the past, has come to the parlor because of lack of sexual partner at this particular time or because of curiosity, will come to orgasm during the genital massage, and will find it sexually satisfying.
(9) The 329 women worked in established locales such as saunas, massage parlors, and nightclubs.
(10) The major source of infections in the males younger than 25 years old was their girl friends or so-called pick-up friends, and that of the males older than 25 years old workers serving at an amusement center, for example, bars and so-called special massage parlor, which accounted for about three fourths of the male cases between 35 and 44 years old.
(11) They begin with the assumptions that massage parlors are brothels renamed and that the customers are problematic individuals seeking impersonal sexual exchanges.
(12) One brother's symptoms were provoked by attending an ultraviolet A suntanning parlor.
(13) In occupational rehabilitation they are concerned with monthly luncheon, play entertainment games, go to movies, beauty parlors, ceramics, sewing activities, learning to read and write, and some parties in relevant national dates, all this at the hospital premises.
(14) The article covers information in the following areas of photo-protection: nature of solar radiation; classification of normal individuals into sun-reactive skin types I-VI; minimal erythema doses of UVB and UVA radiation for individuals of skin types I-VI; classification of sunscreens and SPF values of brand-name sunscreens; a list of UVB- and UVA-absorbing chemicals used in sunscreen formulations in the USA; guidelines for recommending topical sunscreens for the prevention of sunburn, skin photoaging, and skin cancer; and concerns about the harmful effects of UVA radiation and tanning parlors on human skin and the methods used to minimize the potential damaging effects of UVA.
(15) Lesions on the udder of lactating animals and the air in the milking parlor were also sampled.
(16) The risk of residue occurrence was decreased in association with the use of milk residue test kits, when the farmer believed that increasing the dose of antibiotic required an increase in the withholding time of milk, and when tie stall and pipeline milking systems were used rather than milking parlors or tie stall and dumping station systems.
(17) Prostitutes were divided into two groups according to the type of place where they worked: direct prostitutes (in brothels, n = 217) and indirect prostitutes (in massage parlors, n = 139).
(18) Needed research includes studying learned helplessness; analysis and economics of alternative husbandry systems for veal calves (and cows) freestall design and surfaces; and shade, cooling, and misting of mangers and holding pens prior to entering the parlor.
(19) By the end of the 19th century, women-only parlor spaces had been created in other establishments, including photography studios, hotels, banks and department stores.
(20) A 65-year-old woman developed a severe, generalized phototoxic reaction following a visit to a suntan parlor.