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salon

noun
/ˈsælɒn/UK/səˈlɑn/CA/səˈlɔn/

Etymology

Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic sala (“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą (“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- (“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.

  1. derived from *sel-✻
  2. derived from *salą✻
  3. derived from sala
  4. derived from salone
  5. borrowed from salon

Definitions

  1. A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.

  2. A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.

  3. An art gallery or exhibition

    An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.

  4. ›+ 1 more definition

    1. A beauty salon or similar establishment.

The neighborhood

Derived

beauty salon, bridal salon, cybersalon, hairdressing salon, hair salon, literary salon, nail salon, pink salon, salonful, salonical, salonlike, salon music, tanning salon

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