a shop which sells ice-cream, sodas, sundaes, etc.
- 1887  The ice cream parlor, the boating excursion, the reserved seats in the grand stand . . . are separately "terrors" in themselves to the average young man who has undertaken to entertain a sweet girl with the love for all good things.
- 1954  She saw herself slipping away from them, away from the crowd at Carter's ice-cream parlour, slipping down the street to Dr. Brickley's house.
- 1959  There is no theatre, hotel or ice-cream parlor.