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means A place—originally a large public room or hall, later specifically a drinking establishment—where people gather to be sociable, served, and occasionally shot at (in the mythologized version).

from From French 'salon,' itself from Italian 'salone' (a big hall, augmentative of 'sala,' meaning room), which traces back to a Germanic root for a single-room dwelling. 'Salon' entered English for a fancy reception room, but 'saloon' peeled off as its own word, drifting downmarket through 'saloon' meaning any large public room — a train carriage, a ship's lounge — before settling into its rough-and-tumble American identity as the frontier watering hole, swinging doors and all.