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▪ I. ‖ salut, n.|saly|
Also with capital initial.
[Fr., ellipt. for salut du Saint Sacrement, salutation (or benediction) of the Blessed Sacrament.]
In French Roman Catholic churches: an evening service of Benediction (at which the Host is exposed and the hymn ‘O Salutaris Hostia’ is sung).
1694J. Drummond Let. 30 Mar. (1845) 17 One may be either offering the Holy Sacrifice in conjunction with the priests of God, or singing the praise of the Almighty God at the Saluts, or hearing exhortations. 1815E. Wynne Diary 15 Sept. (1952) xxxi. 536 We went into church while the Salut was going on. 1843C. Brontë Let. 2 Sept. in W. Gérin C. Brontë (1967) xiv. 241, I found myself opposite to Ste Gadule, and the bell..began to toll for evening ‘salut’. 1853― Villette xii. 43/2 At sunset or the hour of salut, when the externes were gone home. 1901Month Sept. 268 The word salut, which is still in French-speaking countries the name most commonly employed to designate the service of Benediction, preserves the memory of an institution which most probably must be regarded as the primitive stock, upon which the Exposition of the Sacred Host and the blessing imparted with It are only an excrescence. 1967W. Gérin C. Brontë xiii. 188 The great bell..ringing to Matins, Vespers, and to ‘Salut’ throughout the catholic year.
▪ II. ‖ salut, int.|saly|
[Fr., lit. ‘health’; cf. salud int., salute n.1]
A toast: ‘cheers!’, ‘good health!’
1933E. Hemingway Homage to Switzerland in Scribner's Mag. Apr. 206/2 ‘Prosit,’ said Johnson... The other two porters said ‘Salut’. 1938L. Durrell Spirit of Place (1969) 53 All the Best. I hope to look you two up soon..Salut—Larry. 1966L. Cohen Beautiful Losers i. 4 Salut F., old and loud friend! 1976‘Trevanian’ Main (1977) xiii. 253 She lifts her glass. ‘Salut?’ ‘Salut.’
▪ III. salut
variant pa. tense of salue v. Obs. |