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saloon

[suh-loon] / səˈlun /


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Located on Main Street in an 1897 brick building, this inn, restaurant and saloon originally served as a boardinghouse for Homestake Gold Mine miners.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 25, 2026

Downing Street has rung me before when previous tenants appeared on the threshold of the last chance saloon: Boris Johnson and Liz Truss.

From BBC Jun. 13, 2026

“It was the old saloon in ‘Westworld,’” says Cummings, who was also the production designer on Nolan’s sci-fi western that aired for four seasons on HBO.

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 14, 2026

What used to be the stage in the old saloon got shifted to the other side.”

From Los Angeles Times Jan. 14, 2026

I spy a saloon, bank, dry-goods store, and a hotel.

From "Dread Nation" by Justina Ireland

It also came as the firm halted production of its Jaguar cars, before a relaunch of a series of all-electric saloons.

From BBC Jul. 30, 2026

Harnett found an enthusiastic clientele among merchants and industrialists who appreciated his male themes and appealing arrangements; they proudly hung his works in offices, stores and saloons.

From The Wall Street Journal Nov. 28, 2025

The single, folded sheet lists just 90 names, mostly businesses near historic downtown such as liveries, saloons, physicians, mills, druggists and the local undertaker.

From Los Angeles Times Oct. 7, 2025

In Russia, novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky described the streets of St. Petersburg, the rundown quarters in which the poor were condemned to live, and the cheap saloons in which they sought relief.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

It was best to move a little faster than usual across train tracks, past saloons and shanty homes, pressing quickly toward the safety of the Yard.

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield




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