Definition of "parlance"

To my childish fancy, it had seemed an imaginary flag-staff, or, in rustic parlance, the "liberty pole" of some former generation […]

1836, James Fenimore Cooper, "Eclipse"

We approach the contest, still known in the common parlance of the country, as "the first Pennimite War."

1845, Charles Miner, History of Wyoming, Letter IX

The tourist's impression of the country to-day is that of a transported Holland, in which the official language is Dutch and the parlance of the people is "taki-taki."

1909, William Elliot Griffis, The Story of New Netherland, Chapter 22

At first she "ran a temperature" in American parlance, and I could not resist the exquisite caloricity of unexpected delights—Venus febriculosa—though it was a very languid Lolita that moaned and coughed and shivered in my embrace.

1955, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 12, in Lolita, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: G[eorge] P[almer] Putnam’s Sons, published August 1958, part 2, page 200

Its use at a variety of levels, including the individual and organisational level, make it a varied term that has parlance in organisational development, performance management and talent management.

2020, Stanley Oluka, Performance Management System and Employee Performance in Amuria Health Centre IV, Eastern Uganda

And without further parlance they fought, […]

1849, Lady Charlotte Guest, The Mabinogion, "Peredur the Son of Evrawc"