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PARLOUR GAME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does parlour game mean?
• PARLOUR GAME (noun)
The noun PARLOUR GAME has 1 sense:
1. a game suitable for playing in a parlor
Familiarity information: PARLOUR GAME used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A game suitable for playing in a parlor
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Synonyms:
parlor game; parlour game
Hypernyms ("parlour game" is a kind of...):
game (a contest with rules to determine a winner)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "parlour game"):
word game (any game involving the formation or alteration or discovery of words)
board game (a game played on a specially designed board)
Context examples
“Quite a little parlour game—sort of three-card trick, is it not? There are your three men. It must be one of them. You take your choice. Which is yours?”
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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