Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Parlance \Par"lance\, n. [OF., fr. F. parler to speak. See
   {Parley}.]
   Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal
   parlance; in common parlance.

         A hate of gossip parlance and of sway.   --Tennyson.

Source : WordNet®

parlance
     n : a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of a
         language [syn: {idiom}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

Parlance
     
        A {concurrent} language.
     
        ["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and
        Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin
        1979].
     
        (1994-12-12)