Parlance

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

parlance
    n 1: a manner of speaking that is natural to native speakers of
         a language [syn: {parlance}, {idiom}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Parlance \Par"lance\ (p[aum]r"lans), n. [OF., fr. F. parler to
   speak. See {Parley}.]
   Conversation; discourse; talk; diction; phrase; as, in legal
   parlance; in common parlance.
   [1913 Webster]

         A hate of gossip parlance and of sway.   --Tennyson.
   [1913 Webster] Parlando

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

Parlance

   A {concurrent} language.

   ["Parallel Processing Structures: Languages, Schedules, and
   Performance Results", P.F. Reynolds, PhD Thesis, UT Austin
   1979].

   (1994-12-12)

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

29 Moby Thesaurus words for "parlance":
      choice of words, composition, dialect, diction, expression,
      formulation, grammar, idiom, jargon, language, langue, lingo,
      lingua, locution, parole, personal usage, phrase, phraseology,
      phrasing, rhetoric, speech, talk, tongue, usage, use of words,
      usus loquendi, verbiage, wordage, wording

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