The standard American English term for a funeral home — the establishment where bodies are prepared for burial or cremation and funeral services are arranged and held. While not slang in the traditional sense, 'funeral parlor' carries a slightly older, more formal register than 'funeral home,' evoking the Victorian and Edwardian era when such facilities were literally parlours repurposed for the purpose. The term is widely understood and used across the US without controversy.
Her family chose the downtown funeral parlor because it had been handling local services for three generations.
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(US) A mortuary or funeral home.
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Regional slang from around the English-speaking world — British, Australian, Irish, Caribbean, Nigerian, Filipino, AAVE, and the hyphenated-English dialects that make the internet sound local.
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