| 单词 | parlance |
| 释义 | parlance|ˈpɑːləns|
Also 7 -ence.
[a. AngloFr. and OF. parlance -launce, f. parler to speak. (Not in mod. French.)]
1. Speaking, speech; esp. debate, parleying, parley. arch.
[13..Langtoft Chron. I. 147 Le ray William le Rous..A countes et barouns..Par lettre maunde et prie venir a sa parlaunce [R. Brunne 87 parlement]. ]1579–80North Plutarch, Crassus (1595) 614 Word was brought to Crassus, and he accepted parlance. 1611Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xii. 575/2 King Edward..signifies..to the Pope, that Battel and not Parlance should determine his right, and title. 1701–2Case of Schedule Stated 26 The Place of that Common Parlance was call'd the Parliament Chamber. 1824Examiner 585/1 He was not disposed to let him pass without further parlance. 1830Tennyson Isabel ii, A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. 1879Boultbee Hist. Ch. Eng. 45 After some parlance, the stranger foretold deliverance.
2. Way of speaking, mode of speech, language, idiom. Usually with defining words, as in common parlance, legal parlance, ordinary parlance, vulgar parlance, etc.
[a1481Littleton Tenures vi. (1516) A v, Mes per comune parlaunce [1544–1608 tr. language] celuy qui tient pur terme de sa vie demesne est appelle tenaunt pur terme de vie. ]1787Bentham Def. of Usury xiii. 180 Birmingham..claims in common parlance, the title of a projecting town. 1798Bay Amer. Law Rep. (1809) I. 183 In common law parlance an execution is not an action. 1829Southey Sir T. More (1831) II. 267 A wise woman, by which I do not mean in vulgar parlance one who pretends to prophecy. 1841L. Hunt Seer ii. (1864) 70 A curious specimen of English parlance. 1844Disraeli Coningsby ii. vii, The political opinions..were what in ordinary parlance are styled Tory. 1884Sir W. B. Brett in Law Rep. 14 Q. Bench Div. 191 In legal parlance there might be a debt. |
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