OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 27854

parlance

/ˈpɑː.ləns/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
argot • caliche • fabla (disused) • germanía • habla • hablado • jerga • jerigonza • lenguaje • sociolecto
A certain way of speaking, of using words; especially that associated with a particular job or interest.
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."
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