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–noun
1. a simultaneous or successive 
discharge 
of artillery, bombs, etc.  

2. a round of fire given as a salute
3. a round of cheers or applause.  

–noun Archaic. 
1. an excuse or quibbling evasion. 
2. something to save a person's reputation or soothe a person's feelings.  


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salutary (adj.), salute (n., v.), salvo (n.) 
 
The Latin etymon (艾特曼) for salutary (有益健康) and sal ute is salus, "health," but although salutary has kept to that general meaning,

salute has developed from a figurative use meaning "to wish health to, to greet."

Today’s salute is only a greeting. 

A salvo (from salve, "safe") fires many guns at once and originally was also intended as a salute, that is, as a 
greeting and a compliment.

It has now come to mean figuratively 
"any sudden burst of loud, simultaneous sound" as in 

a salvo of [cheering]. 
The plural is salvos.




quantum_of_solace_ver2 
Announcing the "Solace" shift on the closing night of the Australian International Movie confab, Sony's Oz topper Stephen Basil-Jones said Thursday 

his studio had capitulated [to] Fox
 

"for the benefit of the industry."

The clashing release dates had [drawn] salvos 

between Sony and Fox at the confab attended by 800 exhibs, distribbers and allied trades on Queensland's Gold Coast.








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