Catchword: parlor

Filed under: English, Animals, Insects, & Birds, Slang

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: Lobsters like the shelter of rocks and prefer cold water to warm. They move around a lot and find their food by smell—that’s what the antennas are for—and not by sight. But the whole notion of trapping them may be a misconception. There is some evidence to suggest that the traditional lobster pot, with its two “rooms”—the kitchen and the parlor, as they’re known—and funnel-shaped nets, is not as confining as fishermen think, and that the bugs come and go more or less as they please.

Article or document title:
“Lobsters That Got Away, and Those That Didn’t ” (URL)

Author:
Charles McGrath

Article, document, publication, web site:
New York Times

Dateline:
Westport, Massachusetts

Date of publication:
Nov. 6, 2009

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