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means A large room or hall used for a specific gathering or activity, like a 'salle d'armes' for fencing or a 'salle de bain' for... well, you get it.

from Straight from French 'salle,' meaning 'room' or 'hall,' which traces back to Old French and ultimately to a Germanic root (related to the source of English 'hall' itself) — meaning this fancy-sounding import is secretly a distant cousin of the plain old word it's often used to upstage.