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‖ salon
(‖ salɔ̃, ˈsælɔ̃, ˈsælɒn)
Also 8 sallon.
[Fr.: see saloon.]
1. a. A large and lofty apartment serving as one of the principal reception rooms in a palace or other great house. b. A room, more or less elegantly furnished, used for the reception of guests; a drawing-room.
Now only with reference to France or other continental countries. Cf. saloon 1.
1699M. Lister Journey to Paris 196 The Castle is..most commodious. The Great Salon and the Gallery are extreamly well Painted. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) I. 52 Great Halls or Sallons for Feasting. 1717Berkeley Tour in Italy Wks. 1871 IV. 523 It [the palace of the Barberini in Rome] hath many noble chambers and salons. a1721Sheffield (Dk. Buckhm.) Wks. (1723) II. 276, I rise..about seven a-clock..to walk in the garden; or, if rainy, in a Salon filled with pictures. 1728Chambers Cycl., Salon, or Saloon,..a very lofty, spacious Hall, vaulted at Top, and sometimes comprehending two Stories, or Ranges, of Windows... Embassadors, and other Great Visitors, are usually received in the Salon. 1758H. Walpole Let. to Chute 22 Aug., I have seen the plan of their hall..and both their eating-room and salon are to be stucco, with pictures. 1834H. Greville Diary 23 Oct., Finding Barras had not come home he established himself with a book in the salon until he should return. 1881Q. Rev. Oct. 505 The principal salon had a dome, which, turning day and night imitated the movements of the terrestrial bodies.
2. spec. The reception-room of a Parisian lady of fashion; hence, a reunion of notabilities at the house of such a lady; also, a similar gathering in other capitals.
1810F. Jeffrey in Edin. Rev. XV. 485 When she [Mlle. de Lespinasse] is visibly within a few weeks of her end..she still has her salon filled twice a day with company. 1853C. C. Felton in Longfellow's Life (1891) II. 253 There is not a salon in Paris which is not proud to welcome him. 1888Bryce Amer. Commw. III. cv. 508 One hears of attempts made to establish political ‘salons’ in Washington. 1888Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere xvii. 225 Famous in London society for her relationship, her audacity, and the salon which..she managed to collect round her.
3. a. the Salon: the annual exhibition at Paris of painting, sculpture, etc. by living artists.
Originally held in one of the ‘salons’ of the Louvre.
1875T. G. Appleton in Longfellow's Life (1891) III. 252 The Salon is open. 1908Athenæum 15 Aug. 191/2 He received a medal at the Salon of 1864..; two of his pictures were in this year's Salon.
b. ‖ salon des refusés |de rəfyze|. [Fr., exhibition of rejected work], an exhibition ordered by Napoleon III in 1863 to display pictures rejected by the official Salon; also fig.
1896J. C. Beckwith in J. C. Van Dyke Mod. French Masters iii. 220 His [sc. Manet's] works became known..at the exhibitions of the pictures refused at the Salon, which were for several years gathered together and shown in a building generously provided by the government, and called the Salon des Refusés. 1932Konody & Lathom Introd. Fr. Painting xiii. 194 Déjeuner sur l'herbe [by Manet]..rejected by the Salon,..was exhibited in the Salon des Refusés, and frowned on by Louis Napoleon. 1981Listener 1 Jan. 4/3 Roy Jenkins plus Shirley Williams..plus the non-reselected MPs in the salon des refusés.
4. An establishment in which the trade of a beauty specialist or hairdresser is conducted.
1913Vogue 1 June 106/1 (Advt.), Firming the skin is the new process used exclusively by Elizabeth Arden... It is administered at the Salon by experts. 1917Harrods Gen. Catal. 397 Enshrined in an atmosphere of refinement and artistic comfort, Harrods Hairdressing Salons are a favourite resort with ladies. 1932New Yorker 9 Apr. 68/3 See the telephone book for nearest Salon. 1956Ashley & Stevenson Hair Design & Colour i. 12 The salon itself, as a background to modern hair-styling, must inevitably play a highly important part in creating the right atmosphere. 1973A. MacVicar Painted Doll Affair vii. 82 My wife swears it's much better than the expensive ‘salon’ she used to go to in Glasgow.
5. a. attrib., as (sense 2) salon philosopher, salon science, salon volume, salon-writer; (sense 3) salon furniture, salon norm, salon-piece, salon vocabulary; (sense 4) salon facial, salon service, salon treatment.
1974Times 27 Aug. 9/2 All the products Marisa uses in the salon facials can be bought.
1973R. Hayes Hungarian Game ii. 18 An incredibly tasteless collection of Regency and Salon furniture in the drawing room.
1942Wyndham Lewis Lett. (1963) 324 The artist is labelled ‘decadent’ who departs from the Salon norm..by the Hitlerite pundit of ‘sanity’. 1947A. Einstein Music in Romantic Era iii. 26 The perfect type of the ‘cultured musician’ in the 19th century is represented by Franz Liszt, who was an essayist and salon philosopher. 1974Impressionism (R. A. Catal.) 8 Daubigny..moved to narrow the distinction between outdoor study and Salon-piece. 1977P. Johnson Enemies of Society xv. 203 Not a true discipline at all, but..a salon science.
1974Harrods Christmas Catal. p. ii, Make a Gift of Beauty with a Gift Token..to the value of whichever Salon Service or Treatment you require.
1963Times 6 Mar. 13/2 The liveliest part is that of a tramp-artist with ragged costume and salon vocabulary.
1957Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 778/2 The work has higher claims than that of being merely a salon volume designed for presentation.
1944L. MacNeice Christopher Columbus 13 Radio's contemporary triangle..insists on a function of words which salon-writers are perhaps too apt to forget; this function is communication.
b. attrib. (passing into adj.) and Comb. with (occas. derogatory) reference to light music played as in a fashionable salon.
1914Étude Oct. 708/1 Nearly all compositions for the piano by modern composers are Salon Music. 1935Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Nov. 38/1 He's not making a salon man of me. 1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets xii. 266 So this music sings, not in the African tones of jazz, but in bathetic and sentimental accents. It is salon music. Ibid. 268 The reverse record side..is precisely like the mood-music prevalent today in the special salon-swing. 1947A. Einstein Music in Romantic Era xvii. 331 He was a somewhat eccentric salon-composer. 1948Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. 706 A performer who..undertakes conventional music is a commercial, salon-man, long-underwear or long-hair. 1949Koestler Promise & Fulfilment iii. i. 301 Middle-class families in the Tel Aviv cafés applauded..the Russian marches played by salon orchestras in the Viennese style. 1950Blesh & Janis They all played Ragtime iv. 77 It is unsyncopated and in a light salon vein. 1955Times 12 July 5/5 A Prelude and Fugue for string orchestra by Moszkowski..combined learned and salon styles with surprising success. 1979Guardian 5 May 14/5 Jones..wrote the music for such skittish romances as Girl from Utah..and San Toy. Excerpts from these propped up many a salon orchestra's repertoire. |