parlance Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a language
    idiom.

WordNet

Par"lance noun
Etymology
OF., fr. F. parler to speak. See Parley.
Definitions
  1. Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal parlance; in common parlance.
    A hate of gossip parlance and of sway. Tennyson.

Webster 1913