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Answer for the clue "Old West hangout ", 6 letters:
saloon
Alternative clues for the word saloon
Word definitions for saloon in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saloon \Sa*loon"\ (s[.a]*l[=oo]n"), n. [F. salon (cf. It. salone), fr. F. salle a large room, a hall, of German or Dutch origin; cf. OHG. sal house, hall, G. saal; akin to AS. s[ae]l, sele, D. zaal, Icel. salr, Goth. saljan to dwell, and probably to L. ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE luxury ▪ The only people who drive luxury saloons in East Oxford are drug dealers who do karate with their rottweilers to relax. ▪ Mercedes has achieved sports-car adhesion with a comfort many luxury saloon makers ...
Usage examples of saloon.
You stuck out like a sore thumb in the saloon bar of The Bargee and at regular intervals since.
Turning on his heel he made a rapid dive for the batwing doors of the saloon, beating Wardle to them by a scant half second.
Head Saloon, shoving through the batwing door as she had done in innumerable places and towns throughout the west.
They entered a sprawling saloon called the Bold Adventuress through batwing doors featuring bas relief designs of buxom women.
But he could get to the Boomslang saloon a couple of blocks from his apartment building, and most of the time that was as far as he wanted to go.
The Bond Street man stripped away all the velvet and morocco, plucked up the Turkey carpet, draped the scuttle-ports with pale yellow cretonne garnished with orange pompons, subdued the glare of the skylight by a blind of oriental silk, covered the divans with Persian saddlebags, the floor with a delicate Indian matting, and furnished the saloon with all that was most feminine in the way of bamboo chairs and tea-tables, Japanese screens and fans of gorgeous colouring.
The saloon seemed unfriendly, with no fire burning in the hearth, and the furniture primly arranged.
Boston was rather primmer with just 4,000 illicit watering holes, but that was four times the number of legal saloons in the whole of Massachusetts before Prohibition.
Youthful ambition hardly aspired so much to the honors of the law, or the army and navy as to the dignity of proprietorship in a saloon.
The constant motion of the punkas in the saloons, and an unlimited supply of ice-water was all that saved us.
The sidewalk was too congested with gossiping farmers, so he recrossed the planked ground to the porch sidewalk of the saloon and roadhouse.
Lige described Ed Watson cutting loose down in Key West, shooting out light bulbs in the saloons, never known to miss.
Timber City, since abandoned to the bats and the coyotes, but then in her glory, consisted of two stores, five saloons, a half-dozen less reputable places of entertainment, a steepleless board church, a schoolhouse, also of boards, a hotel, a post office, a feed stable, fifty or more board shacks of miners, and a few flimsy buildings at the mouths of shafts.
Michael Strictland was buying a round of drinks for everyone in the saloon.
Uncle Jasper left his house supperless, and struck down the street until he came to the saloon.