saloon
IPA: sʌɫˈun
noun
- (US) A tavern, especially in an American Old West setting.
- (Britain, dated) A lounge bar in an English public house, contrasted with the public bar.
- (Britain) A car with a boot or trunk compartment separate from the driver/passenger space; a sedan.
- The cabin area of a boat or yacht devoted to seated relaxation, often combined with dining table.
- (rail transport) the part of a rail carriage or multiple unit containing seating for passengers.
- (India, Nigeria) A barbershop (store offering haircuts).
- Dated form of salon (“living room in a house”). [A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.]
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Examples of "saloon" in Sentences
- The Rover 3-Litre saloon is the Unmitigated English motor car.
- Our passengers were not many in what we called the saloon -- three New
- She called the saloon keepers swill-faced, beak-nosed bed mates of Satan.
- There's blue sky so it's a daytime scene pictured and I * think* the title was in a funky "saloon" - type or scriptlike font.
- Since it’s so close to where the hair saloon is located, drive around the neighborhood and enjoy a difference in living pleasure of days gone by.
- He was well known for scaring the pants of other drivers in saloon car racing at the Nurburgring by screeming up behind them in a massivly over-weight, under-braked 500 Merc.
- Bentley's gorgeous "saloon" -- was to pretty much the same general effect, though somewhat more ornately expressed by the use of picturesque expletives, which it is needless to quote.
- The front-wheel-drive 3.2, the all-wheel-drive T6 and the AWD V8 are the new variants for the saloon from the Swedish company which aims to out-muscle the best in the prestige passenger car sector.
- In the Fifteenth Assembly District some distance below, but on the same line, the first sociological canvass of the Federation of Churches had found the churches, schools, and other educational agencies marshalling a frontage of 756 feet on the street, while the saloon fronts stretched themselves over nearly a mile; so that, said the compiler of these pregnant facts, saloon social ideals are minting themselves on the minds of the people at the ratio of seven saloon thoughts to one educational thought.
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