parlor

salon, boutique

Établissement qui propose un type particulier de produit ou de service.

En anglais simple : A business that offers a particular kind of product or service.

• We visited an ice cream parlor.
• She opened a tattoo parlor last year.
• Several pizza parlors deliver to our neighborhood.

Synonymes : shop, salon

Expressions courantes : tattoo parlor, pizza parlor, ice cream parlor

salon

Pièce d’une maison où l’on s’assoit, discute et reçoit des invités.

En anglais simple : A room in a house where people sit, talk, and welcome guests.

• They sat in the parlor.
• Her guests drank tea in the front parlor.
• The old house has two parlors.

Synonymes : sitting room, drawing room, living room

Expressions courantes : front parlor, parlor furniture, sit in parlor

de salon

Conçu ou adapté pour une pièce où l’on s’assoit et reçoit des invités.

En anglais simple : Made for or suitable for use in a room where people sit and receive guests.

• The children played parlor games.
• This small instrument was popular for parlor music.
• Parlor painting became a fashionable hobby.

Expressions courantes : parlor games, parlor music, parlor painting

de salon

Qui soutient une idée en discutant confortablement, sans s’engager dans des actions concrètes.

En anglais simple : Supporting an idea through comfortable discussion without taking part in practical action.

• He dismissed their views as parlor socialism.
• The parlor revolutionary never joined a protest.
• She accused him of being a parlor radical.

Synonymes : armchair

Expressions courantes : parlor socialism, parlor radical, parlor revolutionary