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salonical

adj

Etymology

From salon + -ical, from the use of salon to refer to an intellectual and social gathering.

  1. derived from *sel-✻
  2. derived from *salą✻
  3. derived from sala
  4. derived from salone
  5. borrowed from salon
  6. suffixed as salonical — “salon + ical”

Definitions

  1. Intellectually pretentious.

    • If the book was not clever and amusing, we should not refer to these matters, nor to such epithets as “swanking ” and “salonical.”
    • Beside all that, I know your salonical divinity well enough. A woman everlastingly sole-sitting, not on the shore of old romance, but on the brink of hysterical mania.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA