icecream parlour

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icecream parlour (plural icecream parlours)

  1. Alternative form of ice cream parlor.
    • 1993, Richard Gott, Land Without Evil: Utopian Journeys Across the South American Watershed, London, New York, N.Y.: Verso, →ISBN, page 265:
      We eventually retire to an icecream parlour on the corner of the plaza.
    • 1993, Julie White, Sisters and Solidarity: Women and Unions in Canada, Toronto, Ont.: Thompson Educational Publishing, Inc., →ISBN, page 16:
      One contract specified that the teacher not get married, not ride in a carriage with any man not her relative, not leave town without permission, not smoke or drink, not dye her hair, not dress in bright colours, never wear fewer than two petticoats, not wear make up, wear her dresses no more than two inches above the ankle and not loiter downtown in icecream parlours.
    • 1995, Sharon Kinsella, “Cuties in Japan”, in Lise Skov, Brian Moeran, editors, Women, Media, and Consumption in Japan, Honolulu, Haw.: University of Hawaiʻi Press, →ISBN, page 232:
      Most of this icecream was sold in the fancy icecream parlours which arrived on the streets of Tōkyō and Ōsaka in the early 80s at the beginning of the ‘icecream boom’ caused by the sudden increase in adult consumers: []