Definition of Parlor game

1. Noun. A game suitable for playing in a parlor.

Exact synonyms: Parlour Game
Generic synonyms: Game
Specialized synonyms: Word Game, Board Game

Definition of Parlor game

1. Noun. (alternative spelling of parlour game) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Parlor Game

parliamentarily
parliamentary
parliamentary agent
parliamentary democracy
parliamentary law
parliamentary monarchy
parliamentary procedure
parliamentlike
parliaments
parlies
parling
parlor
parlor-game
parlor-games
parlor car
parlor game (current term)
parlor grand
parlor grand piano
parlormaid
parlormaids
parlors
parlour
parlour-game
parlour car
parlour game
parlour games
parlour grand
parlour grand piano
parlour skate
parlourmaid

Literary usage of Parlor game

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1875)
"A new parlor game, just ready. Invented by an officer of the army, serving in the lar West. Three distinct games for the discipline of the mind, memory, ..."

2. The Sports and Pastimes of American Boys: A Guide and Text-book of Games of by Henry Chadwick (1884)
"THIS parlor game affords an opportunity for a species of billiard-playing which those who are not practised in billiards can fully enjoy, without any very ..."

3. Words, Words, Words: Teaching Vocabulary in Grades 4-12 by Janet Allen (1999)
"Played like the parlor game dictionary. Players create phony but believable definitions for given words and earn points for selecting the correct definition ..."

4. The Knights of the Holy Grail: A Solution of the Boy Problem by Perry Edwards Powell (1906)
"parlor game of Baseball. Card Game of Politics. Table Game of Golf. Tiddly Wink Ring Game. Comic Conversation Cards. Donkey Game. Chinaman Game. ..."

5. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1909)
"It is also an excellent parlor game, and is full of sport if played by quick, alert players. This game is from Denmark. SMUGGLING THE GEG 10 or 30 to more ..."

6. Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium by Jessie Hubbell Bancroft (1909)
"It is also an excellent parlor game, and is full of sport if played by quick, alert players. This game is from Denmark. SMUGGLING THE GEG 10 or 30 to more ..."

7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1888)
"Were precautions taken that no floor shadows of the object should be cast, and has Mr. Guthrie ever tried that other parlor game, once very popular in this ..."

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