salon
/ˈsalɒn
/noun
1An establishment where a hairdresser, beautician, or couturier conducts trade: have your hair cut in a professional salon a hairdressing salon...
- Tutors boast that at the college's Top To Toe hairdressing and beauty training salons, punters get as good a result as in a professional salon - but it might take a bit longer.
- Botox injections, which reduce worry lines and crow's feet, are available from beauty clinics, hairdressing salons and at Botox parties held in homes.
- Before her departure to Spain she ran a successful beauty clinic with her sister Deirdre who ran a hairdressers salon at New Line Road.
Synonyms
shop, parlour, establishment, place, premises, building, place of business, boutique, store
2A reception room in a large house.The accommodation comprises a fully fitted farmhouse kitchen, salon, dining room, three bedrooms, cellar, and floored loft....
- The whole staff was busy that day, cleaning and polishing every corner of Blumere, particularly the salon and the dining room.
- The grand salon of this superb house is in the white and gold and carved work of the days of Napoleon I.
Synonyms
reception room, drawing room, morning room, sitting room, living room, lounge, front room, best room, parlour
2.1 historical A regular social gathering, especially of writers and artists, at the house of a woman prominent in high society.Also misleading is the author's claim that Chopin was readily accepted in the Parisian salons as a social equal rather than being merely an entertainer....
- Her daughter conducted a salon that became a gathering place for the writers, artists, and musicians of the Harlem Renaissance.
- But socially he was entirely at home in those Third Republic salons where politicians mixed with aristocrats, diplomats, and writers.
2.2North American A meeting of intellectuals or other eminent people at the invitation of a celebrity or socialite: Washington political salons...
- She regularly holds literary salons and provides a hospitable setting and has done so for many years.
- He holds informal salons at which artists are encouraged to bring work for his critique.
- Her grandparents once entertained poets and artists in their salon, discussing the merits of T. S. Eliot.
3 (Salon) An annual exhibition of the work of living artists held by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris from 1648, originally in the Salon d’Apollon in the Louvre.In their heyday in the 19th century exhibitions like the Salon and the Summer Show were events of great social and artistic importance....
- Naively optimistic and resilient, Manet sought honours in the Salons; Degas was cynically indifferent to public acclaim.
- It was precisely over the course of the Salons of 1833 and 1834 that Ingres emerged as the unambiguous champion of drawing, the very ‘personification of line,’ to adopt the phrase employed by Theophile Gautier.
Origin
Late 17th century: from French (see saloon).