salon, n.m., drawing-room; saloon, parlor; exhibition (of paintings, of works of art). pl., fashionable world; fashionable circles. Petit —; small drawing-room. Fréquenter les —s; to be a man of fashion.
salope, n. and adj. f., slut; disorderly woman; slovenly, sluttish. C’est une vraie —; she is a perfect slut. Marie-—; (—s-—s) mud-boat.
salopement (-lop-mān), adv., (pop.) sluttishly, dirtily.
saloperie (-lo-prî), n.f., slovenliness, sluttishness; coarse language, ribaldry; beastliness, filth.
salorge, n.m., loaf of salt.
salpêtrage, n.m., nitrification; saltpeter-making.
salpêtre, n.m., saltpeter. Ce n’est que du —; he fires up, or he takes fire, at the least thing; (fig.) hastiness; fire, vivacity.
salpêtrer, v.a., to throw saltpeter (over a space of ground); to nitrify (a wall); to throw out, to produce, saltpeter.
se salpêtrer, v.r., to nitrify, to be covered with saltpeter (of walls).
salpêtrerie, n.f., saltpeter-works.