Parlance.
In common parlance. In the usual or vulgar phraseology. An English-French word; the French have parler, parlant, parlage, etc.—to speak, speaking, talk—but not parlance.
In common parlance. In the usual or vulgar phraseology. An English-French word; the French have parler, parlant, parlage, etc.—to speak, speaking, talk—but not parlance.
Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.