salon
pronunciation
How to pronounce salon in British English:
UK [ˈsælɒn]
How to pronounce salon in American English:
US [səˈlɑːn]
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- Noun:
- gallery where works of art can be displayed
- a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
- elegant sitting room where guests are received
Word Origin
- salon (n.)
- 1690s, "large room or apartment in a palace or great house," from French salon "reception room" (17c.), from Italian salone "large hall," from sala "hall," from a Germanic source (compare Old English sele, Old Norse salr "hall," Old High German sal "hall, house," German Saal), from Proto-Germanic *salaz, from PIE *sel- (1) "human settlement" (cognates: Old Church Slavonic selo "courtyard, village," obsolete Polish siolo, Russian selo "village," Lithuanian sala "village"). Sense of "reception room of a Parisian lady" is from 1810; meaning "gathering of fashionable people" first recorded 1888 (the woman who hosts one is a salonnière). Meaning "annual exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculpture in Paris" is from its originally being held in one of the salons of the Louvre. Meaning "establishment for hairdressing and beauty care" is from 1913.
Example
- 1. He presides over a salon of poets folk singers intellectuals .
- 2. She drew him into the salon , where the family waited , a boy and girl his daughter 's age , his sister-in-law and her husband .
- 3. In a communal area surrounded by changdeng 's abandoned worker dormitories , a beauty salon , table-tennis room and medical clinic have been stripped bare .
- 4. Have you hair styled while you practice your vocabulary at salon 2032 .
- 5. The area features some stores , including a supermarket and a beauty salon .