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Parlour game. A game of "Questions and Commands" depicted by James Gillray, 1788. A parlour or parlor game is a group game played indoors, named so as they were often played in a parlour. These games were extremely popular among the upper and middle classes in the United Kingdom and in the United States during the Victorian era.
A drawing room is a room in a house where visitors may be entertained, and an alternative name for a living room. The name is derived from the 16th-century terms withdrawing room and withdrawing chamber, which remained in use through the 17th century, and made their first written appearance in 1642. [1] In a large 16th- to early 18th-century ...
Japanese minimalist interior living room, 19th century. In Western architecture, a living room, also called a lounge room (Australian English [1]), lounge (British English [2]), sitting room (British English [3]), or drawing room, is a room for relaxing and socializing in a residential house or apartment. Such a room is sometimes called a front ...
Here are some hallmarks you may find in a Cape Cod-style home: A steep pitched roof to help keep off snow during New England winters. A large chimney at the heart of the home. Pane sash windows on ...
Many magicians consider the term "parlor" to be old-fashioned and limiting, since this type of magic is often done in rooms much larger than the traditional parlor, or even outdoors. According to the Encyclopedia of Magic and Magicians by T.A. Waters , "The phrase [parlor magic] is often used as a pejorative to imply that an effect under ...
A hall-and-parlor house is a type of vernacular house found in early-modern to 19th century England, as well as in colonial North America. [1] It is presumed to have been the model on which other North American house types have been developed, such as the Cape Cod house, saltbox, and central-passage house, and in turn influenced the somewhat ...
The locally-owned ice cream parlor is a throwback to earlier times, sporting vintage decor, Tiffany-style lights and parlor chairs that might be found in an old-fashioned soda fountain.
A faro game in a Tombstone, Arizona Territory saloon.. The frontier gambler is one of the most recognizable stock characters of the 19th century American frontier.Historically, gamblers were of both sexes, came from a variety of professions, social classes, and geographical backgrounds, were of many different nationalities, and were part of a well-respected profession.