1.A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat. "The gilden saloons in which the first magnates of the realm... gave banquets and balls."
2.Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon. "We hear of no hells, or low music halls, or low dancing saloons (at Athens.)"
...