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SALOON , a large See also:room for the reception of guests in a See also:mansion. The See also:French See also:salon itself is formed from salle, Ger. Saal, See also:- HALL
- HALL (generally known as SCHWABISCH-HALL, tc distinguish it from the small town of Hall in Tirol and Bad-Hall, a health resort in Upper Austria)
- HALL (O.E. heall, a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. Halle)
- HALL, BASIL (1788-1844)
- HALL, CARL CHRISTIAN (1812–1888)
- HALL, CHARLES FRANCIS (1821-1871)
- HALL, CHRISTOPHER NEWMAN (1816—19oz)
- HALL, EDWARD (c. 1498-1547)
- HALL, FITZEDWARD (1825-1901)
- HALL, ISAAC HOLLISTER (1837-1896)
- HALL, JAMES (1793–1868)
- HALL, JAMES (1811–1898)
- HALL, JOSEPH (1574-1656)
- HALL, MARSHALL (1790-1857)
- HALL, ROBERT (1764-1831)
- HALL, SAMUEL CARTER (5800-5889)
- HALL, SIR JAMES (1761-1832)
- HALL, WILLIAM EDWARD (1835-1894)
hall, reception-room, represented in Old See also:English by the cognate swl, hall, properly " abiding-See also:place," from the See also:root seen in See also:Gothic sa!See also:jan, to dwell, cf. Russ. selo, See also:village. The word in its proper sense has now a somewhat archaistic flavour, being chiefly used of the 18th See also:century, and it has come principally to be used (1) of the large rooms on passenger steamers; (2) on English See also:railways of carriages for the See also:accommodation of large parties not divided into compartments, and in the See also:United States of the so-called " See also:drawing-room cars "; and (3) of a See also:bar or place for the See also:sale of intoxicants.
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