parlour game
Noun
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Noun
parlour game (plural parlour games)
- Any of a number of amusing games played indoors with few props by the members of a social gathering.
- 1918, Arthur Quiller-Couch Foe-Farrell, Prologue:
- Do you know that parlour-game, Yarrell dear? Are you a performer at Musical Chairs?
- 1918, Arthur Quiller-Couch Foe-Farrell, Prologue:
- (politics, figuratively) The use of deliberately nebulous or confusing language.
- (deliberately confusing language) doublespeak
- German: Gesellschaftsspiel
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