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salonnière|səlɒnɪˈɛə(r)|
[Fr., f. salon.]
A woman who holds a salon; a society hostess.
a1922T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) 27 Fresca's arrived (the Muses Nine declare) To be a sort of can-can salonnière. 1925A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves ii. i. 86 Mrs. Aldwinkle the salonnière, the hostess, the giver of literary parties and agapes of lions—is she not classical? a household word? a familiar quotation? 1964New Sattesman 10 Apr. 572/2 For a time she [sc. Beatrice Elvery] worked in the Co-operative Stained Glass Studio run by Sarah Purser, a patriotic salonnière. 1976S. J. Darroch Ottoline iv. 60 Being a hostess gave many women a chance to use talents and abilities that would otherwise have had no outlet. They turned their houses into cultural or intellectual oases, or merely centres of gossip. And a few did so in such a style that they qualified for the exalted title of salonnière. |