sallen.
/sal/ 1.
a. A hall, room. rare. (Only with reference to foreign countries.)
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > large or principal room
hallc1200
sala1611
aula1626
sale1632
salle1765
ha'1808
saal1855
megaron1877
1765 H. Walpole Let. 5 Dec. (1904) VI. 375 You may go into the petit cabinet, and then into the great salle, and the gallery.
1819 Ld. Byron Let. 31 Dec. (1976) VI. 262 Music—dancing—and play all in the same Sal [l] e.
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xx. 68 A knowledge not merely confined to its open streets, but penetrating to all its galleries, salles, and cabinets.
1913 H. 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 n. at Compounds (see sense Compounds below).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1886 C. M. Yonge Chantry House II. xv. 144 Martyn was doing his best for him..while Lady Peacock was at the salle.
1966 G. 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 n. at Compounds (see sense Compounds below).
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > fencing place
ruffian's hall1592
fencing-hall1601
salle d'armes1885
piste1906
salle1961
1961 F. C. Avis Sportsman's Gloss. 197/1 Salle, the fencing hall or studio, often open to the public.
1973 Where Mar. 73/3 Among the luxuries enjoyed by school C..a fencing salle.
1975 Oxf. 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. With varying pronunciation /sɑːl/, /sɔːl/. Also † saul. The finishing department of a papermill, in which sheets of paper are examined, sorted and packed.
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society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > paper > department in
salle1888
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXVI. at 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.
1852 C. Tomlinson Cycl. Useful Arts (1854) II. 364/1 The paper..is taken down, carried to a building called the Saul..where it is examined, finished, and pressed.
1888 C. F. Cross & E. J. Bevan Text-bk. 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.
1894 G. Clapperton Pract. Paper-making 147 The different stages through which the paper passes in the salle are entirely dependent on the qualities produced in the mill.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 518 s.v. Finisher Salle finisher.
1921 Dict. Occup. Terms (1927) § 518 s.v. Sorter Salle sorter.
1946 H. 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.
1976 Oxf. 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.
Compounds
In French combinations.
salle-à-manger n. /salamɑ̃ʒe/ a dining-hall, dining room.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > eating > eating place > [noun] > dining-room
parlourc1384
cenaclea1400
triclinec1440
dining room?1576
dining hall1598
eating-room1613
triclinium1646
supper rooma1661
coffee-room1712
breakfast-room1732
salle-à-manger1762
mess-room1774
refreshment room1785
breakfast-parlour1802
noon-hall1828
dinner room1853
Speisesaal1871
diner1907
dinette1920
breakfast-nook1931
brunch bar1940
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > dining room
cenaclea1400
triclinec1440
parlour1526
dining room?1576
dining hall1598
eating-room1613
triclinium1646
supper rooma1661
coffee-room1712
salle-à-manger1762
mess-room1774
sala1774
noon-hall1828
dinner room1853
Speisesaal1871
diner1907
dinette1920
1762 L. Sterne Let. 14 Aug. in Lett. 1739–64 (2009) 290 The house consists of a good salle à manger above stairs [etc.].
1862 W. M. Thackeray 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.
1886 J. Ruskin Præterita II. v. 172 James Forbes and his wife were with us in the otherwise untenanted salle-à-manger.
salle d'armes n. /sal darm/ a fencing-room, school or club.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > fencing > [noun] > fencing place
ruffian's hall1592
fencing-hall1601
salle d'armes1885
piste1906
salle1961
1885 E. 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.
1902 G. B. Shaw Let. 4 Mar. (1972) II. 269 There should be a salle d'armes where stage combats & wrestlings could be practised.
1952 Fencing (‘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.
salle d'attente n. /sal datɑ̃t/ a waiting-room (at a station).
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > station > waiting room
salle d'attente1863
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > waiting room
waiting-chamber?a1562
void room1577
waiting-room1683
waiting-lobby1837
salle des pas perdus1839
salle d'attente1863
1863 Miss Jemima's Swiss Jrnl. 26 June (1963) i. 9 Passengers..are locked in the salle d'attente until the arrival of the train.
1879 Froude 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.
1882 G. A. Sala Amer. Revisited (1883) I. vii. 111 Without any crowding..we passed from the salle d'attente to the platform.
1909 E. 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.
salle d'audience n. /sal dodjɑ̃s/ a courtroom.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > audience-chamber
chamber of presence1538
presence1548
presence chamber1551
audience chamber1625
salutatory1641
salle d'audiencec1660
presence room1690
durbar1793
c1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1644 (1955) II. 98 Within are severall Chambers, Courts, Treasures &c above that most rich and glorious Sale de L'Audiens.
salle d'eau n. /sal do/ a wash-room, shower-room.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing oneself or body > [noun] > place for washing > room for washing in
lavatory1594
washing-room1838
washroom1854
Moab1865
salle d'eau?1957
?1957 L. Durrell Let. in 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.
1964 Punch 14 Oct. 573/3 Town-dwellers in France who have a salle d'eaux [sic]..of their own.
salle de jeu n. /sal də ʒø/ a gambling house or room.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1901 V. Bethell Monte Carlo Anecd. 4 In the year 1858 a grand banquet was held to inaugurate the opening of his Salle-de-Jeux.
1968 ‘D. Torr’ Treason Line 130 They were in the salle des jeux [sic], the hushed sanctuary of the temple of chance.
salle des pas perdus n. /sal de pɑ pɛrdy/ a waiting-hall (at a law-court, station, etc.), lobby.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > waiting room
waiting-chamber?a1562
void room1577
waiting-room1683
waiting-lobby1837
salle des pas perdus1839
salle d'attente1863
1839 Indispensable Eng. Vade Mecum Paris 135 The most remarkable hall is that named la salle des Pas-Perdus, being 222 feet long, by 84 wide.
1883 H. James En Province in Atlantic Monthly Oct. 455/1 The curious salle-des-pas-perdus, or central hall, out of which the different tribunals open,..is a feature of every French court house.
1977 Listener 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.
salle privée n. /sal prive/ a private gambling room in a casino.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > places for gambling
dicing-house1549
carding house1550
gaming house1562
dicing-chamber1571
tabling house1576
game house?1577
macaroni1771
gambling house1772
gambling school1773
gambling club1774
spill-house1778
gambling hall?1781
gambling den1792
gambling booth1804
hell1812
gambling hell1818
Crockford1827
silver hell1835
deadfall1837
casino1851
house1855
tripot1864
skin house1871
bucket-shop1875
gambling joint1885
salle1886
tabling den1886
spoofery1895
salle de jeu1901
strong joint1914
kitchen1924
salle privée1930
spieler1931
1930 E. 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.
1976 H. MacInnes Agent in Place xiv. 153 There were two wings..the left one consisted of the Salle Privée.
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