salon

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A place where people go to have their hair or beauty treatments done.

   She booked an appointment at the salon to get her hair cut.

2. 2
   noun

   An elegant room used for receiving and entertaining guests.

   Guests gathered in the grand salon before dinner.

3. 3
   noun

   A regular gathering of people for social or intellectual conversation.

   The writer hosted a weekly salon where artists discussed ideas.

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.

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