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[syn: parlance, idiom]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Parlance \Par"lance\ (p[aum]r"lans), n. [OF., fr. F. parler to
speak. See Parley.]
Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal
parlance; in common parlance.
[1913 Webster]
A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster] Parlando
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
parlance
n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of
a language [syn: parlance, idiom]
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
Parlance
A concurrent language.
["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and
Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin
1979].
(1994-12-12)