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12-01-2015 10:09 PM
For instance, my mom used rouge and I use blush.
I kept my clothes in a bureau but now I keep them in a dresser.
We used to sit in the parlor, but now it's a living room.
Which words or terms do you remember, or still use, that have been replaced?
12-01-2015 10:13 PM
Pocketbook/purse/handbag.
I use all three terms still.
12-01-2015 10:17 PM
My dad still calls the refrigerator the ice box.
12-01-2015 10:19 PM - edited 12-01-2015 10:21 PM
My mom called it beauty parlor and beauty operator! Now it's hairdresser and salon for some (for me it's far from a "salon"---just beauty shop!).
I grew up with the evening meal being supper. Now our family calls it dinner.
12-01-2015 10:28 PM
My mom's family said Davenport. I say couch.
I've heard "aeroplane" in old movies. I say airplane
Margarine used to be called oleo
12-01-2015 10:29 PM
My grandmother called it a davenport, I call it a couch.
12-01-2015 10:31 PM
My mom calls it a den, I call it the family room.
12-01-2015 10:33 PM
12-01-2015 10:35 PM
@Karlakaye wrote:My mom called it beauty parlor and beauty operator! Now it's hairdresser and salon for some (for me it's far from a "salon"---just beauty shop!).
I grew up with the evening meal being supper. Now our family calls it dinner.
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I call hairdressers stylists
12-01-2015 10:40 PM
I call them earrings; paternal grandmother (born 1895) called them earbobs.
We had a family room but I think the homes built from the 80s on call them great rooms.
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