Definitions for "Parlor"
A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
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.
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.
Keywords:  flagman, brakeman, caboose, maid, hind
Caboose. Parlor man or parlor maid is hind brakeman or flagman on freight train.
Keywords:  herringbone, barn, dairy, rotary, walk
The specialized area on the dairy farm where milking is performed. Parlors come in many types: Flat Barn, Walk-through, Herringbone, Parallel, Swing and Rotary.