Definitions
A particular way of speaking or using words.
Word origin
From Middle English *parlaunce, from Anglo-Norman parlance, parlaunce, from parler (“to talk”) + -ance.
Used in a sentence
“To my childish fancy, it had seemed an imaginary flag-staff, or, in rustic parlance, the "liberty pole" of some former generation […]”
“We approach the contest, still known in the common parlance of the country, as "the first Pennimite War."”
“The tourist's impression of the country to-day is that of a transported Holland, in which the official language is Dutch and the parlance of the people is "taki-taki."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Manner of speech”8 letters
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