saloon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A bar or public place where alcoholic drinks are served, especially in the American Old West.

   The cowboys gathered in the saloon after a long day on the trail.

2. 2
   noun

   A car with a separate boot and seating for four or more passengers.

   They traded in the old hatchback for a comfortable family saloon.

From Occitan salon, French salon, either augmentative of salle (“room”), or borrowed from Italian salone (“hall”), augmentative form of sala, salla (“room”); in both cases borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German sal (“house, hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą, from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“dwelling”). Doublet of salon.

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