parline

[Eng. par, and line.) The mean or normal line of a barometer for a given station. par-lor, *par-lour, *par-ler, *par-lur, subst . [O. Fr. parle or ( Fr.parloir ), from parler =to speak.] 1. The room or apartment in a convent in which the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with their friends and visitors. 2. The ordinary living or sitting room in a house, usually occupied by the family when they have no company, as distinguished from the drawing-room, which is intended for the reception of company. In this country the word is used synonymously with Drawing-room. "There was a Tapestry Company, which would soon furnish pretty hangings for all the parlors of the middle cla ." -Macaulay: Hist. Eng . , ch. xix. 3. A room in a hotel, kept more private and more select than the office, in which guests can sit down and converse sociably.