sala

[ sah-luh ]

noun

1. a large hall, living room, or reception room.

Word History and Origins

Origin of sala¹

First recorded in 1605–15; from Spanish: “living room, hall,” either from Old Provençal, from Germanic or directly from Germanic; salon

Example Sentences

Next door to the museum is a clone of the Cavern Club, the Beatle Café and the Sala John Lennon stand-up comedy theatre.

From The Daily Beast

Anri Sala achieves a masterpiece, by taking on someone else's.

From The Daily Beast

The Daily Pic (Venice Biennale edition): Anri Sala achieves a masterpiece, by taking on someone else's.

From The Daily Beast

Sala simply makes those games more obvious, and a bit surreal.

From The Daily Beast

One nice, anti-surreal detail from Sala: Thanks to skewed gears in its innards, his off-kilter clock tells perfect time.

From The Daily Beast

But, as squire of dames, Kit was too much occupied to give further heed to business in the sala.

From Project Gutenberg

In the same sala are two Memlings (703, 778), and a Roger van der Weyden .

From Project Gutenberg

From the dining-room floated into the sala snatches of toasts, interruptions, bursts and ripples of laughter.

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The interval between breakfast and dinner is devoted to swinging in the hammock, either in the sala or in the corridor.

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A sympathetic uncle sent him to the musical conservatory at Naples, where he studied under Sala Tritto.

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