Has nobody mentioned 'parlour' yet?
When Father papered the parlour
You couldn't see him for paste
Dabbing it here! dabbing it there!
Paste and paper everywhere
Mother was stuck to the ceiling
The children stuck to the floor
I never knew a blooming family
So 'stuck up' before.
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here. (But that song was written in 1910; I've never known a oom called a parlour. And when I first met it (almost certainly in the nursery rhyme
Sing a Song of Sixpence) I needed it explained to me. As 'the maid'* was there [in that nursery rhyme] I imagine it was a 'downstairs'* thing).
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PS * I got it wrong. For 'maid...downstairs' read 'queen...upstairs'.
PPS I
think Lennon & McCartney started composing on a piano in someone's 'parlour' - which suggests it's a current (or, at least, early '60s) Scouse usage. This might have been a PR invention though; I have no authoritative source.