meaning of parlous
1. Attended with peril; dangerous; as, a parlous cough.
2. Venturesome; bold; mischievous; keen.
3. fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go
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