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parlance

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par·lance  (pärlns)
n.
1. A particular manner of speaking; idiom: legal parlance.
2. Speech, especially a conversation or parley.

[Middle French, from Old French, from parler, to speak; see parley.]

parlance
Noun
the manner of speaking associated with a particular group or subject: he had, in Marxist parlance, a `petit bourgeois' mentality [French parler to talk]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.parlance - a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
formulation, expression - the style of expressing yourself; "he suggested a better formulation"; "his manner of expression showed how much he cared"

parlance
noun language, talk, speech, tongue, jargon, idiom, lingo (informal) phraseology, manner of speaking
Translations
parlance [ˈpɑːləns] nlenguaje m;
in common/modern parlance → en lenguaje corriente/moderno
parlance [ˈpɑːləns] n in common/modern parlance → dans le langage courant/actuel
parlance [ˈpɑːləns] n in common/modern parlance → im allgemeinen/modernen Sprachgebrauch
parlance [ˈpɑːləns] n in common/modern parlance → nel gergo or linguaggio comune/moderno


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In common parlance men speak of those whom they honour and love as 'coming first' with them.
At King William Island, in the Admiralties, Kwaque had made, in the parlance of the South Pacific, a pier-head jump.
He had recognised in me a ship's officer, very possibly looking for a berth like himself, and so far a comrade, but still a man belonging to that sparsely-peopled after-end of a ship, where a great part of her reputation as a "good ship," in seaman's parlance, is made or marred.
 
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