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‖ salle|sal|
See also sale n.3
[Fr.; of Teut. origin: cf. sale n.1]
1. a. A hall, room. rare. (Only with reference to foreign countries.)
1765H. Walpole Let. 5 Dec. (1904) VI. 375 You may go into the petit cabinet, and then into the great salle, and the gallery. 1819Byron Let. 31 Dec., in Moore Life (1839) 432/1 Music, dancing, and play, all in the same salle. 1853C. Brontë Villette xx, A knowledge not merely confined to its open streets, but penetrating to all its galleries, salles, and cabinets. 1913H. James Small Boy & Others xxv. 359, I..enjoyed the commemorative show of Delaroche given..in one of the rather bleak salles of the École des Beaux-Arts.
b. = salle de jeu (see sense 2 below).
1886C. M. Yonge Chantry House II. xv. 144 Martyn was doing his best for him..while Lady Peacock was at the salle. 1966G. Greene Comedians i. iii. 89, I watched him leave the salle. He had over three hundred dollars to change now. 1970‘J. Morris’ Candywine Devel. xxiii. 247 He stood at the big roulette table in the main salle.
c. = salle d'armes (see sense 2 below).
1961F. C. Avis Sportman's Gloss. 197/1 Salle, the fencing hall or studio, often open to the public. 1973Where Mar. 73/3 Among the luxuries enjoyed by school C..a fencing salle. 1975Oxf. Compan. Sports & Games 306/2 A few schools, such as that of the famous Angelos and the London Fencing Club, founded in 1848, kept the sport alive in a few London salles, some public schools, and the universities.
2. In Fr. combinations. salle-à-manger |salamɑ̃ʒe|, a dining-hall, dining room. salle d'armes |sal darm|, a fencing-room, school or club; salle d'attente |sal datɑ̃t|, a waiting-room (at a station); salle d'audience |sal dodjɑ̃s|, a court-room; salle d'eau |sal do|, a wash-room, shower-room; salle de jeu |sal də ʒø|, a gambling house or room; salle des pas perdus |sal de pɑ pɛrdy|, a waiting-hall (at a law-court, station, etc.), lobby; salle privée |sal prive|, a private gambling room in a casino.
1762Sterne Let. 14 Aug., The house consists of a good salle à manger above stairs [etc.]. 1862Thackeray Philip II. ix. 201 At a pretty early hour the various occupants of the crib at the Rue Poussin used to appear in the dingy little salle-à-manger, and partake of the breakfast there provided. 1887Ruskin Præterita II. 172 James Forbes and his wife were with us in the otherwise untenanted salle-a-manger.
1885E. Castle Schools & Masters of Fence x. 159 How different a ‘salle d'armes’ in Paris or London in those days from the old Italian schools of Queen Bess and Henri III. 1902G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Mar. (1972) II. 269 There should be a salle d'armes where stage combats & wrestlings could be practised. 1952Fencing (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) 19/1 In a friendly encounter in the Salle d'Armes (Fencing Room) or Club, the sporting tradition of acknowledging a hit has been jealously preserved.
1863Miss Jemima's Swiss Jrnl. 26 June (1963) i. 9 Passengers..are locked in the salle d'attente until the arrival of the train. 1879Froude in Fraser's Mag. Nov. XX. 624 It was a large barely furnished apartment like the salle d'attente at the Northern Railway Station at Paris. 1882Sala Amer. Revis. (1883) I. vii. 111 Without any crowding..we passed from the salle d'attente to the platform. 1909E. Nesbit Daphne in Fitzroy St. iv. 44 The rout of dark-skinned, browbent, hurrying, preoccupied French folk..in the salle d'attente at the station.
a1666Evelyn Diary an. 1644 (1955) II. 98 Within are severall Chambers, Courts, Treasures &c above that most rich and glorious Sale de l'Audiens. 1957L. Durrell Spirit of Place (1969) 138 Of course no lavatories and salle d'eau a rarity. Even in this lovely villa we wash from a bucket. 1964Punch 14 Oct. 573/3 Town-dwellers in France who have a salle d'eaux [sic]..of their own. 1968D. Torr Treason Line 130 They were in the salle des jeux [sic], the hushed sanctuary of the temple of chance.
1901V. Bethell Monte Carlo Anecdotes 4 In the year 1858 a grand banquet was held to inaugurate the opening of his Salle-de-Jeux.
1839Indispensable Eng. Vade Mecum Paris 135 The most remarkable hall is that named la salle des Pas-Perdus, being 222 feet long, by 84 wide. 1885H. James Little Tour in France xvii. 120 The curious salle des pas perdus, or central hall, out of which the different tribunals open..is a feature of every French court-house. 1977Listener 10 Feb. 183/1 The image is growing on me of Limbo as a large railway terminus..where the dead hang about in a salle des pas perdus.
1930E. Waugh Labels ii. 35 The cinema producer's version of the salles privées, with jewelled courtesans and ribboned grand-dukes, is a thing of the past. 1976H. MacInnes Agent in Place xiv. 153 There were two wings..the left one consisted of the Salle Privée.
3. With varying pronunc. |sɑːl, sɔːl|. Also † saul. The finishing department of a papermill, in which sheets of paper are examined, sorted and packed.
1819Ree's Cycl. XXVI. s.v. Paper, The paper, being sufficiently dried for the last time, is carried to the building where it is examined, finished, and pressed: this is called the Saul. 1854C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts II. 364/1 The paper..is taken down, carried to a building called the Saul..where it is examined, finished, and pressed. 1888Cross & Bevan Paper-Making 175 The sheets of paper are now ready to be examined before being finally sent away from the mill. This is done in the ‘Finishing-house’, or ‘Salle’ as it is sometimes called. 1946H. Whetton Pract. Printing & Binding xxviii. 345/1 If the paper is being sold in sheets it goes to the ‘salle’ or finishing department, where each sheet is examined top and bottom..and sorted. 1976Oxford Times (City ed.) 12 Mar. 1/7 Sogat members at Wolvercote Mill could not recommend acceptance of the management's latest proposals for the 70 men in the salle. |