Hypertext Webster Gateway: "parlance"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Parlance \Par"lance\, n. [OF., fr. F. parler to speak. See
{Parley}.]
Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal
parlance; in common parlance.
A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. --Tennyson.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
parlance
n : a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a
language [syn: {idiom}]
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