Parlance

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(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 1:49:30

Par"lance (?), n. [OF., fr. F. parler to speak. See Parley.]

Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.

A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. Tennyson.

 

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