saloonn.
/səˈluːn/, U.S. /səˈlun/ 1. (a) = salon n. 1(a). (b) = salon n. 1(b). Now U.S.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > reception room > in a palace or mansion
common chamber1653
salon1699
saloon1728
salone1902
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Salon, or Saloon,..a very lofty, spacious Hall, vaulted at Top, and sometimes comprehending two Stories, or Ranges, of Windows... Embassadors, and other Great Visitors, are usually received in the Salon.
1748 S. Richardson Clarissa III. lxiv. 310 What Mr. Lovelace saw of the house (which were the salon and two parlours) was perfectly elegant.
1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea II. xxxiv. 207 They were then lining the grand salloon with Silesia marble.
1760 H. Walpole Let. 19 July in Lett. to G. Montagu (1818) 200 Ditchley..is a good house, well furnished, has good portraits, a wretched saloon [etc.].
1785 W. Cowper Task i. 414 Strange! there should be found, Who, self-imprison'd in their proud saloons, Renounce the odours of the open field.
1810 E. D. Clarke Trav. Var. Countries: Pt. 1st iv. 64 The coup d'œil upon entering the grand saloon is inconceivable... The company consisted of nearly two thousand persons.
1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 438 Saloons are frequently raised the whole height of the building.
1828 J. F. Cooper Notions Amer. I. 261 A young American..is just as happy in the saloon, as she was a few years before in the nursery.
1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 365 Saloon signifies, in its stricter architectural meaning, a room.., not only the principal room as to spaciousness, but loftiness also... At present however..the name of saloon is indiscriminately or ostentatiously bestowed on any unusually large room.
1842 Lit. Gaz. 3 Sept. 612/1 Neither was she received altogether in the saloon, as she was of too humble a grade to mix with gentry and nobility.
1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. xiii. 291 In all grades of society, from the wigwam to the saloon.
1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. xx. 440 The aim of a numerous class of popular writers is..to make books..speak the dialect of the saloon.
1907 Connoisseur XIX. 139/2 [Eaton Hall] The saloon..forms part of the hall... Divided by pillars alone from the entrance hall, the two form one large room.
2. = salon n. 2. Now rare.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > [noun] > in salon
salon1810
saloon1810
1810 F. Jeffrey in Edinb. Rev. 15 461 It is to this..that the French are indebted for the superiority of their polite assemblies. Their saloons are better filled than ours.
1820 P. B. Shelley Let. 16 Apr. (1964) II. 184 I find saloons & compliments too great bores.
1838 R. W. Emerson Oration before Lit. Societies 21 How mean to go blazing, a gaudy butterfly, in fashionable or political saloons.
1881 A. P. Stanley Christian Inst. (1882) 297 Materials of conversation at the dinner tables of London or the saloons of Paris.
3. A large apartment or hall, esp. in a hotel or other place of public resort, adapted for assemblies, entertainments, exhibitions, etc.; also, rarely, any unusually large apartment.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun]
houseOE
playhouseOE
playing-placea1375
showplace1560
show hall1562
theatre?1577
theatre-house1578
cockpita1616
stage-house1638
show house1674
saloon1747
theatrum1786
spellkenc1800
hippodrome1811
spell1819
show-box1822
1747 Gen. Advertiser 12 May Mr. Rose and others will play in the Great Room, and in the Salloon in the Gardens.
1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 126 In digging near the Latin~gate, two subterraneous saloons have also been discovered, in which were found four tombs.
1837 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers xxxv. 383 The great pump-room is a spacious saloon, ornamented with Corinthian pillars.
1858 N. Hawthorne French & Ital. Note-bks. (1872) I. 11 The Restaurant des Echelles..has a handsomely furnished saloon.
1886 Guide Exhib. Galleries Brit. Mus. 40 In this saloon are two Table-cases containing tablets of baked and unbaked clay from Babylonia.
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a. A large cabin in a passenger-boat for the common use of passengers in general or for those paying first-class fares; †the passenger cabin of an aeroplane. Also quasi-adv. in to go (etc.) saloon.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > room, locker, or quarters > [noun] > cabin > types of on passenger ship > large for common use
saloonc1835
society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > parts of aircraft > [noun] > fuselage > cabin or saloon
cabin1908
saloon1921
pressure cabin1933
c1835 in M. Johnson Amer. Advertising, 1800–1900 (1960) Fare to Bristol—In main Saloon, and cuddy state rooms, Thirty-Five Guineas; in fore and lower saloons, Thirty Guineas.
1842 C. Dickens in J. Forster Life Dickens (1872) I. 271 One man lost fourteen pounds at vingt-un in the saloon yesterday.
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! I. ii. 57 If you can compass the means, go saloon—the extra comfort on a long voyage is well worth the extra price.
1884 Whitaker's Almanack (Advt. section) 20 These large, highest classed and full-powered Steamships..are fitted up in the latest and most approved fashion to ensure the comfort of Passengers, having the Saloon on Upper Deck.
1888 W. S. Caine Trip round World x. 147 The saloon accommodates just sixteen persons to table.
1892 E. Reeves Homeward Bound 124 In the steerage we are told the thermometer reaches 109° in the shade. In our saloon 90° to 100° is the highest.
1900 H. Lawson Over Sliprails 113 I should have gone over steerage with nothing..and come back saloon with a pile.
1921 Daily Mail Year Bk. 27/1 Eight passengers..in armchair seats in a draught-proof saloon.
1930 Daily Express 6 Oct. 2/3 R101 swept around in a wide circle, visible only by her red and green navigating lights and the glow of the illuminated saloons.
b. In full saloon car or carriage: A railway carriage without compartments, furnished more or less luxuriously as a drawing-room or for a specific purpose, as dining saloon, sleeping saloon. Also (U.S.) ‘the main room of a compartment-car or a small subdivision of a sleeping-car’ ( Funk's Stand. Dict.).
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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > carriage designed to carry passengers > other types of passenger carriage
caravan1821
private car1826
Jim Crow car1835
ladies' car1841
saloon car or carriage1842
palace car1844
ladies' carriage1847
parliamentary carriage1849
parlour car1859
composite carriage1868
Pullman1869
observation car1872
first1873
compo1878
bogie carriage1880
chair-car1880
club car1893
corridor carriage1893
tourist-car1895
birdcage1900
dog box1905
corridor coach1911
vista-dome1945
Stolypin1970
1842 Illustr. London News 18 June 89/1 Previous to the departure from Paddington, the Royal Saloon, the fittings of which are upon a most elegant..scale, were tastefully improved by bouquets.
1850 C. Schreiber Jrnl. 17 June (1950) 243 We had a saloon carriage.
1855 D. K. Clark Railway Machinery 275/1 Saloon carriages may..be planned variously... The business public appear generally to prefer the ordinary partitioned carriage.
1859 First Impressions New World 214 There were four of these [state rooms], besides a general saloon in the middle; but the whole was greatly inferior to the elegance of Mr. Tyson's car on the Baltimore and Ohio Railway.
1886 St. James's Gaz. 16 Oct. 6/2 He stepped lightly from the saloon-car.
1886 Encycl. Brit. XX. 247/1 Saloon carriages are occasionally used, so called because two or more of the ordinary compartments are merged in one.
1891 Harper's Mag. Mar. 581/1 The car at the head of the New York and Chicago Limited was divided..; the two small apartments ‘amidships’, so to speak, were arranged, one as a bath room, and the other as a barber~shop; and then came the more spacious saloon reserved for the smokers.
1899 Westm. Gaz. 19 Sept. 6/2 In the rear of the express was..the saloon in which the distinguished travellers were making their journey... They travelled..to Aberdeen in an ordinary sleeping saloon.
c. A type of motor car with a closed body for four or more passengers. Cf. sedan n. 1c.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > car with fixed or rigid roof > for four or more people
saloon1908
sedan1912
saloon car1915
saloon carriage-
1908 Motor Manual (ed. 11) iii. 92 Other forms of bodies fitted to more expensive cars include the brougham, landaulet, saloon, double phaeton, [etc.].
1925 Morris Owner's Man. 62 Morris-Oxford (Saloon and Cabriolet).
1927 B. K. Seymour Three Wives i. x. 157 He..secured the services of a Buick saloon.
1935 W. H. Auden & C. Isherwood Dog beneath Skin 12 Brought in charabanc and saloon along arterial roads.
1955 Times 6 June 7/7 A chauffeur-driven saloon draws up with a single passenger in the back—a prim little boy reading a school book.
1971 Daily Tel. 13 Apr. 2/4 A new saloon with front-wheel drive and transversely-mounted engine..is announced today by Fiat.
1976 N. Botham & P. Donnelly Valentino vii. 48 The street, where a gleaming new four-door Ford saloon was parked.
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a. An apartment to which the public may resort for a specified purpose, as billiard saloon, boxing saloon, dancing saloon, shaving saloon, etc.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > room by type of use > [noun] > assembly room
common hall?1473
long room1642
room1715
squeeze room1850
saloon1851
1851 A. O. Hall Manhattaner 46 How the ice cream saloons resound with clattering spoons.
1852 C. J. Talbot in Visct. Ingestre Meliora 166 In London..we went to places of entertainment, and low dancing saloons.
1874 J. P. Mahaffy Social Life Greece viii. 241 We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens].
b. = saloon theatre n. at Compounds 2 below.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] > music hall
variety theatre?1577
music hall1749
hall1862
saloon1864
1864 G. A. Sala Robson 14 The place was a ‘saloon’—that is to say, drinking and smoking went on during the performance, but the pieces put upon the stage were all of a high class.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXXI. 46/2 The principal ‘saloons’ were the ‘Effingham’ in the Whitechapel Road, the ‘Bower’ in the Lower Marsh, Lambeth, [etc.].
1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 130/1 ‘Saloon’ became the name for any place of popular entertainment; ‘variety’ was an evening of mixed plays; and ‘music hall’ meant a concert hall that featured a mixture of musical and comic entertainment.
6. In the U.S., a place where intoxicating liquors are sold and consumed; a drinking bar. Also, in British use, a refreshment bar in a theatre; a separate bar in a public house (as opposed to public bar), = saloon bar n. at Compounds 2 below.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar
tapstryc1460
ale stand1588
tap1725
bar-room1797
taproom1807
estaminet1814
saloon1841
sample room1865
cantina1892
mahogany1896
beverage room1936
spit and sawdust1937
1841 Southern Literary Messenger 7 764/1 After going into the saloon (grog-shop) to ‘freshen the nip’—..they led me into the upper tier of boxes.
1841 C. Dickens Let. 28 Dec. (1969) II. 454 This note is about the saloon... The refreshments are preposterously dear... There ought to be a boxkeeper to ring a bell or give some other notice of the commencement of the overture to the afterpiece.
1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. 51 I've ben consid'ble round in bar-rooms an' saloons Agetherin' public sentiment.
1854 Harper's Mag. Apr. 586/2 As I re-entered the bar~room labeled ‘saloon’, of mine inn.
1884 N.Y. Herald 27 Oct. 6/3 [Two men] demanded drinks in the saloon of ——, Myrtle avenue, Brooklyn.
1888 W. S. Caine Trip round World vii. 106 Here [i.e. at Rogers Pass, Canada] is a collection of wooden shanties, used as liquor~saloons, music and dancing-houses.
1892 J. Ralph in Harper's Mag. LXXXIV. 716/2 The fee for a permit to maintain a saloon or hotel bar in cities of more than 100,000 population is $1000.
1893 C. G. Leland Memoirs I. 282 A rather first-class saloon, bar, and restaurant on Broadway.
1902 ‘N. Gubbins’ Dead Certainties 106 Exactly thirty days from the day upon which I first entered the accursed swing-doors of the Bull and Beehive, late one night, a stranger entered the ‘saloon’.
1946 Amer. Speech 21 277 The English saloon-keeper was the keeper of the ‘saloon’, or as it would now be termed ‘refreshment bar’, in a London theatre.
1949 Columbus (Ohio) Sunday Disp. 16 Oct. c1/3 He returned to Westerville in 1887 and opened a saloon at a new location on State St.
1969 House & Storey Lett. C. Dickens II. 454 Macready had gone to great lengths to civilize the saloon.
1976 National Observer (U.S.) 28 Aug. 13/1 People have been tossed out of saloons in downtown Utica, N.Y., with more style.
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General attributive: C1. Simple attributive.
saloon licence n.
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1892 J. Ralph in Harper's Mag. LXXXIV. 712/1 The saloon licence system is another village development.
saloon passengers n.
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1879 Froude in Fraser's Mag. Nov. 625 The saloon passengers were taken next.
saloon steward n.
C2. Special combinations.
saloon bar n. a separate bar in a public house offering more comfort, services, etc. than the public bar.
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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tap-room or bar > other bars
public bar1654
American bar1856
wine room1865
last chance saloon1869
four-ale1883
private bar1892
saloon bar1902
cocktail bar1908
cocktail lounge1934
porter bar1935
lounge bar1937
wine bar1938
dive bar1940
gay bar1947
open bar1947
piano bar1947
sherry-bar1951
public1957
leather bar1961
private1963
ouzeri1964
karaoke bar1977
1902 G. Hill in G. Sims Living London II. 292/3 The distinction between the ‘private’ bar and the ‘saloon’ bar is subtle... The saloon bar is the ante-chamber of the billiard room.
1932 L. Golding Magnolia St. i. iii. 45 The Public Bar, nothing like so grand as the Saloon Bar, nothing like so cosy as the Private Bar.
1977 ‘J. Gash’ Judas Pair ii. 17 The saloon bar was crowded.
saloon car n.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > car with fixed or rigid roof > for four or more people
saloon1908
sedan1912
saloon car1915
saloon carriage-
1915 Motor Manual (ed. 18) xi. 135 Landaulets, cabriolets, and saloon cars.
1931 D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xv. 167 I observed Mr. Gowan's saloon car standing before the door.
1974 Country Life 17 Oct. 1112/1 In post-war years we have had some very exciting saloon-car racing.
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saloon carriage n. (a) (see sense 4b); (b) = sense 4c.
saloon deck n. a deck for the use of saloon passengers.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > part of vessel above water > [noun] > deck > decks for use of passengers
promenade deck1820
promenade1826
berth-deck1856
sun deck1876
saloon deck1888
shade-deck1894
1888 W. S. Caine Trip round World i. 3 The saloon-deck presents the usual aspect. Ladies are grouped about in pleasant corners in easy deck-chairs.
saloon-keeper n. U.S. one who keeps a drinking saloon; also, in British use, the keeper of a refreshment bar in a theatre.
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the world > food and drink > drink > providing or serving drink > [noun] > inn or tavern keeping > innkeeper
tappera1000
tapsterc1000
wifeOE
taverner1340
gannekerc1380
tippler1396
alewifec1400
vintnerc1430
alehouse-keeperc1440
ale-taker1454
innholder1463
cellarman1547
ale draper?1593
pint pot1598
ale-man1600
nick-pot1602
tavern-keeper1611
beer-monger1622
kaniker1630
ordinary keeper1644
padrone1670
tap-lash?1680
ale-dame1694
public house keeper1704
bar-keeper1712
publican1728
tavern-man1755
Boniface1795
knight of the spigot1821
licensed victualler1824
thermopolite1832
bar-keep1846
saloon-keeper1849
posadero1851
Wirt1858
bung1860
changer1876
patron1878
bar-tender1883
soda-jerker1883
bar steward1888
pub-keeper1913
1849 Theatrical Mirror 10 Sept. 21 The ‘Mirror’ is supplied at most moderate prices to the Saloon Keepers, in order to enable them to sell it to advantage.
1873 ‘M. Twain’ & C. D. Warner Gilded Age lix. 530 Leave the true source of our political power..in the hands of saloon-keepers.
1879 G. Campbell White & Black in U.S. 242 The publicans, or saloon-keepers, as they are called in America.
1944 B. A. Botkin Treasury Amer. Folklore i. 131 He followed the construction of a new line on the Southern Pacific Railroad as camp saloon-keeper.
1977 Times 9 July 9/1 His grandfather was a poor tenant farmer..who became a saloon keeper.
saloon landaulette n. a saloon with a folding head.
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1930 Motor Body Building May 105 Saloon landaulette.
saloon man n. U.S. one who frequents drinking saloons.
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1870 J. W. McClung Minnesota 213 Spring Valley, with 400 population..and no saloon. ‘Saloon men cannot live in Spring Valley.’
1915 J. London Star Rover ii. 9 You can weave the political pull of San Francisco saloon-men and ward heelers into a position of graft.
saloon pistol n.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > types of
dag1587
key gun1607
pocket pistol1612
key pistol1663
holster-pistol1679
troop pistol1688
horse pistol1704
screw-barrel1744
saddle pistol1764
air pistol1780
Wogdon1786
belt pistol1833
dueller1835
Colt1838
tickler1844
Derringer1853
cocking pistol1858
belt size1866
bulldozer1880
saloon pistol1899
Luger1904
Police Positive1905
Steyr1920
Saturday-night pistol1929
muff pistol1938
PPK1946
Makarov1958
Saturday-night special1959
puffer1963
snub nose1979
snubby1981
1899 R. Kipling Stalky & Co. 65 Rabbit-shooting with saloon-pistols.
saloon rifle n. light firearms for firing at short range.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > rifle > types of
three-o(h)-three1683
air rifle1801
yager1817
big bore1838
seventy-five1840
telescopic rifle1850
Minié rifle1851
needle rifle1856
pea rifle1856
Lancaster1857
six-shooting1858
Whitworth1858
Henry1861
polygroove1863
telescopic-sighted rifle1863
spencer1866
magazine rifle1867
Snider rifle1868
chassepot1869
Martini–Henry rifle1869
Winchester1871
Mauser rifle1872
Martini1876
saloon rifle1881
express1884
express rifle1884
Mannlicher1884
Mauser1887
Lee-Enfield1888
Flobert1890
pump gun1890
take-down1895
two-two1895
Ross rifle1901
hammer-rifle1907
sporter1907
French 751914
twenty-two1925
machine-gun rifle1941
assault rifle1950
assault weapon1968
kalashnikov1970
assault rifle1975
1881 W. W. Greener Gun & its Devel. 368 Saloon rifles..are small, smooth-bore guns,..firing a bulleted breech-cap... Pistols..are also made on the same principle. In all saloon rifles and pistols the propellant is fulminating powder contained in a small copper case.
saloon smasher n. U.S. slang one who practises or advocates the practice of the wrecking of drinking saloons as a protest against the liquor traffic; so also saloon smashing.
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1901 Westm. Gaz. 10 Dec. 9/2 The notorious saloon smasher.
1905 Daily Chron. 11 July 5/7 ‘Saloon-smashing’ methods of reform by wrecking with dynamite buildings in which liquor selling was carried on.
saloon theatre n. see theatre n. 2.
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