Parlance is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PARLANCE in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a manner of speaking
• a particular way of speaking or using words, especially a way common to those with a particular job or interest
• particular way of speaking, idiom
• Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.
• a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language

Words related to PARLANCE

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Words that contain PARLANCE

parlances13 imparlance16 imparlances17

How to use PARLANCE in a sentence

• But whoever remembers his youth will know that such terms to me were not the common parlance of trade.
• Party intrigue had accomplished what, in court parlance, is called the disgrace, but which, in the language of common sense, means only the dismissal of this great man.
• So far as competition was concerned, he was, in sporting parlance, nowhere! The old blind gentleman followed, and I do not think that I ever witnessed a more melancholy spectacle.
• As a competitor on the fashionable race-course, Lord Hartfield was, in common parlance, out of the running.
• What we in common parlance call the action of frost, and which in this climate is well known to be very powerful, is not particularly injurious to organized bodies.
• In common parlance, to avoid tediousness, to save time, and to adapt language to circumstances, we usually utter words with great rapidity, and in comparatively short quantity.
• Hence the marsh where the shrubs were cut down was styled in common parlance Deadly Marsh.
• An Indian village, as understood in border parlance, comprises the lodges, the women, children, old men, and such movable property as Indians may chance to possess.
• Moreover, no one ever yet saw an amiable personage, who was not so far pleasing, or, in other parlance, so far pretty.
• In Nevada parlance, Sedgwick would have wagered two to one with Browning, on the measure of their respective happiness.
• He told me that good conduct meant, in prison parlance, absence of punishment, and Oscar had been punished pretty often.
• It is doubtless a beneficent ordination of Providence that the best interests of society are not solely dependent on what in common parlance is called genius.
• The shrinkage will, in ordinary parlance, bring the weights nearer to the axis of rotation.
• They express themselves in the neighborly parlance with a fury of fun, of pathos, and profanity which is native to their region.
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE UP A TREE In military parlance, Tom had advanced only to be caught in a pocket.
• A South Indian tank in our parlance would be an artificial lake.
• This name, however, has extended to the enclosures in other areas, and we have already, in vulgar parlance, St.
• These are the only denominations known to the government or to the law, yet they are scarcely received in common parlance.
• In common parlance we employ words, in connection with Slavery, which imply much more than such a claim.
• Lapham aghast, and falling helplessly into his alphabetical parlance.
• The slaves, to use Southern parlance, looked fat, saucy, happy and contented, while the free blacks, with a few exceptions, had a miserable and dejected appearance.
• They were couched in legal parlance and cushioned on expensive, patterned vellum.
• They named their poison, in the parlance of the neighbourhood, and stood to their glasses like so many valiant gunners.

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