salon
Meanings
Plural: salons
Noun
- gallery where works of art can be displayed
- a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
- elegant sitting room where guests are received
- A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
- A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
- An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
- A beauty salon or similar establishment.
Origin / 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.
Synonyms
beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty salon, beauty shop, cenacle, circle, guest room, hall, lounge, parlor
Scrabble Score: 5
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