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parlour pink noun a wealthy person who espouses socialist views from the safety of luxury US, 1920- Born in Minneapolis in 1888, like many other parlor pinks, fellow-travelers, Communists and convicted perjurers, he attended Harvard Law School. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 104, 1951
- That showed that dirty parlor pink. — Robert Gover, One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding, p. 99, 1961
- Besides, no man, not even a parlor pink, liked a girl who carried things around in old cream bottles stuffed into paper bags. — Mary McCarthy, The Group, p. 215, 1963
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