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sa⋅loon

  [suh-loon]
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–noun
1. a place for the sale and consumption of alcoholic drinks.
2. a room or place for general use for a specific purpose: a dining saloon on a ship.
3. a large cabin for the common use of passengers on a passenger vessel.
4. British.
a. (in a tavern or pub) a section of a bar or barroom separated from the public bar and often having more comfortable furnishings and a quieter atmosphere.
b. saloon car.
5. a drawing room or reception room.
Origin:
1720–30; var. of salon
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sa·loon   (sə-lōōn')   
n.  
  1. A place where alcoholic drinks are sold and drunk; a tavern.
  2. A large room or hall for receptions, public entertainment, or exhibitions.
  3. Nautical
    1. The officers' dining and social room on a cargo ship.
    2. A large social lounge on a passenger ship.
  4. Chiefly British A sedan automobile.

[French salon, salon; see salon.]
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Saloon

Sa*loon"\ (s[.a]*l[=oo]n"), n. [F. salon (cf. It. salone), fr. F. salle a large room, a hall, of German or Dutch origin; cf. OHG. sal house, hall, G. saal; akin to AS. s[ae]l, sele, D. zaal, Icel. salr, Goth. saljan to dwell, and probably to L. solum ground. Cf. Sole of the foot, Soil ground, earth.]

1. 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.

The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm . . . gave banquets and balls. --Macaulay.

2. Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.

We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons [at Athens.] --J. P. Mahaffy.
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Language Translation for : saloon
Spanish: cámara, salón,
German: der Saal,
Japanese: 大広間
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saloon 
1728, Anglicized form of salon (q.v.), and originally used interchangeable with it. Meaning large hall in a public place (esp. a passenger boat) is from c.1835, also used of railway cars furnished like drawing rooms. Sense of "public bar" developed by 1841, Amer.Eng.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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