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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.