Saloon
[sə'luːn] or [sə'lun]
Definition
(n.) 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.
(n.) Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Spacious room, reception room.
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Definition
n. a spacious and elegant hall or apartment for the reception of company for works of art &c.: a main cabin: a drawing-room car on a railroad: a liquor-shop.—ns. Saloon′ist Saloon′-keep′er one who retails liquor.
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Examples
- Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I entered one of the palaces, and opened the door of a magnificent saloon. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Inured now for so long a time to rooms with bare boards, black benchesdesks, and stoves, the blue saloon seemed to me gorgeous. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He proposed in the recess--in the room that used to be a picture-gallery--that Sir Monckton converted into it saloon? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- What were you doing, sir, up in that billiard saloon? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But finally Jack found an ice-cream saloon, and that closed investigations for that evening. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Fortunately there was another entrance to the drawing-room than that through the saloon where they were all seated at dinner. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- On reaching the house, they were shown through the hall into the saloon, whose northern aspect rendered it delightful for summer. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The embarrassment from the liquor question which Woodrow Wilson feared does not arise because teetotaler and drunkard both become intoxicated when they discuss the saloon. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- More than this, they offer to the poor man an effective substitute for the saloon. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- No, I was glad that you were not in the saloon, because I hope you never go to such places. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- When Darcy returned to the saloon, Miss Bingley could not help repeating to him some part of what she had been saying to his sister. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- For it was indeed that most respectable saloon, in which Prude and I were making an exhibition of our pretty persons, owing to the merest ignorance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The weather was very hot, it had been many a day since Jack had seen ice-cream, and so it was useless to talk of leaving the saloon till it shut up. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Under the spell of it men try to stop drunkenness by closing the saloons; when poolrooms shock them they call a policeman; if Haywood becomes annoying, they procure an injunction. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
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