| 单词 | saloon |
| 释义 | saloon (once / 509 pages) 1n 2n A saloon is an old-fashioned name for a bar or a tavern. Suggest meeting at the local saloon after work and your friends might give you a funny look, but they'll know what you mean. A saloon is a place to sit drink a beer, though it's much more common these days to call it a bar or a pub. In the Old West, saloons played a huge role, providing refreshment to prospectors, trappers, and cowboys. The word comes from the French salon, and it originally had the same meaning, "living room." Later, saloon meant "hall," especially one on a boat or a train. In 1800's America, it came to mean "public house or bar." WORD FAMILYsaloon: saloons USAGE EXAMPLESProhibitionist Carry Nation, who used a hatchet to wreck saloons in Topeka and Wichita, spent time in the rotary jail in Wichita, Bayens said. Washington Times(Dec 30, 2016) Dancers create animals, flowers, trains and even a Western-style saloon. Washington Times(Dec 24, 2016) At last, we pushed through the double-swing doors and stepped into the saloon. The New Yorker(Dec 15, 2016) 1 1n a room or establishment where alcoholic drinks are served over a counter Syn|Hypo|Hyper bar, barroom, ginmill, taproom barrelhouse, honky-tonk a cheap drinking and dancing establishment cocktail loungea barroom in a hotel or restaurant where cocktails are served sawdust saloona saloon whose floor is covered with sawdust speakeasy(during prohibition) an illegal barroom room an area within a building enclosed by walls and floor and ceiling 2n tavern consisting of a building with a bar and public rooms; often provides light meals 2Syn|Hypo|Hyper gin mill, pothouse, pub, public house, taphouse alehouse a tavern where ale is sold free housea public house that is not controlled by a brewery and so is free to sell different brands of beer and ale tap house, tavern a building with a bar that is licensed to sell alcoholic drinks n a car that is closed and that has front and rear seats and two or four doors Syn|Hypo|Hyper sedan brougham a sedan that has no roof over the driver's seat auto, automobile, car, machine, motorcar a motor vehicle with four wheels; usually propelled by an internal combustion engine |
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