Salon Meaning
/ˈsælɒn/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
nounA gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
Sentence Examples
She goes to the beauty salon at least once a week.
How about spending an elegant and blissful time at a beauty salon?
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She went to the new beauty ____ to get her hair cut.
Word Origin & History
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.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus."
— 1933, Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas:
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She went to the new beauty ____ to get her hair cut.