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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
saloon
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 would envy.
new
▪ The solution was simple, of course: produce a new family saloon.
▪ Volvo has won a safety award for its innovative integrated child seat fitted to all new 900-series saloons.
▪ David Oates going well in a new saloon car racing class.
■ NOUN
bar
▪ Above the entrance to the saloon bar there is a picture of Shakespeare on the swinging sign.
▪ But the Telegraph was not taking its line from saloon bar advisers.
▪ What the saloon bar lacked in creature comforts it made up for by the complete absence of journos.
▪ Wexford went into the saloon bar.
▪ Meryl didn't want to come - and played darts in the saloon bar.
▪ There was a long silence, such as falls over a saloon bar in a Western at moments of confrontation.
▪ Better the mild academic joke than the jollities of the saloon bar.
car
▪ Albert Honey says: If that had happened to a saloon car full of people from a family.
▪ He had come up through motorcycle racing and saloon cars.
▪ A big saloon car was parked outside the other door with its engine running.
▪ Two minutes in the microwave and you have a full size saloon car ready to drive away.
▪ Right: The Vauxhall Chevette looks what it is: a nippy, small family hatchback saloon car.
▪ David Oates going well in a new saloon car racing class.
▪ It's a new challenge for the ultimate competitor; saloon car racing for the Peugeot team.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But you expect that sort of thing in a literary saloon.
▪ He got a job sweeping out a saloon and was allowed to sleep in the carriage house behind it.
▪ He stopped in several other saloons before he reached Clinton Place.
▪ Miguelito sat at the saloon table.
▪ The town, with a population of more than 2, 000, boasted 18 saloons and 100 mining companies.
▪ Volvo has won a safety award for its innovative integrated child seat fitted to all new 900-series saloons.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Saloon

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. solum ground. Cf. Sole of the foot, Soil ground, earth.]

  1. A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.

    The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls.
    --Macaulay.

  2. Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.

    We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens.]
    --J. P. Mahaffy.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
saloon

1728, anglicized form of salon, and originally used interchangeable with it. Meaning "large hall in a public place for entertainment, etc." is from 1747; especially a passenger boat from 1817, also used of railway cars furnished like drawing rooms (1842). Sense of "public bar" developed by 1841, American English.

Wiktionary
saloon

n. 1 (context US English) A tavern, especially in an American Old West setting. 2 (context British dated English) A lounge bar in an English public house, contrasted with the public bar. 3 (context British English) The most common body style for modern cars, with a boot or trunk. 4 The cabin area of a boat or yacht devoted to seated relaxation, often combined with dining table. 5 (context rail transport English) the part of a rail carriage or multiple unit containing seating for passengers. 6 (dated form of salon English) (living room in a house)

WordNet
saloon

  1. n. a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter; "he drowned his sorrows in whiskey at the bar" [syn: barroom, bar, ginmill, taproom]

  2. tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals [syn: public house, pub, pothouse, gin mill, taphouse]

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Wikipedia
Saloon

Saloon may refer to:

  • An alternative name for a bar
  • A South Asian term for a barber's shop
  • One of the bars in a traditional British public house (pub)
  • Saloon (automobile), a style of car body also known as a sedan
  • Saloon (band), an English Indie musical group
  • The centre room of a suite of state rooms
  • The officers' mess on a merchant vessel
  • Western saloon, a historical style of American bar
Saloon (band)

Saloon was an English indie musical group from Reading, who formed in 1997 and disbanded in 2004. The band included Adam Cresswell (bass/synthesisers), Michael Smoughton (drums), added Alison Cotton (viola), Amanda Gomez (lead vocal) and Matt Ashton (guitars). Their first gig at The Fox and Hounds in Caversham. In 1999, Saloon came to the attention of DJ John Peel, who featured the band on his radio programme. The band recorded three Peel sessions; aired 4 July 2001, 7 August 2002 and 19 April 2003.

Saloon (album)

Saloon is the debut studio album for Christian metal band The Ongoing Concept. The album was produced by their vocalist/guitarist Dawson Scholz, and was released on August 20, 2013 through Solid State Records. The album attracted commercial success and positive criticism.

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.