What would now be called a living room but was usually called a parlor in my grandmother's day. Used to receive and entertain visitors, a piano was indispensable.
Примеры использования:
There was crack in a panel in the door that my brother and I sometimes used to watch my aunt's nurse entertain her boyfriend Maurice in the courting room. If it looked as if it would get steamy, we ceased watching. Not that bad, really, for a couple of Nosey Parker little boys.
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