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sa·lon \(ˈ)sa|lōⁿ, səˈlän, (ˈ)sa|län also səˈlōn or (ˈ)sa|lōn or (ˈ)sȧ|lōⁿ sometimes (ˈ)sa|läⁿ or səˈlōⁿ\ noun (plural salons \-ōⁿ(z), -änz, -ōnz, -äⁿ(z)\) Usage: often attributive Etymology: French — more at saloon 1. : a usually spacious and elegant apartment or living room (as in a fashionable French home) 2. : a fashionable assemblage that is held by custom at the home of a usually socially prominent person and takes its character from the kind of notables (as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) who frequent it < literary salons … have flourished in Paris since the days of Louis XIV — Malcolm Cowley > < witty favorite of Society … and mistress of a brilliant salon — advt > 3. a. : an apartment or hall for the exhibition of works of art (as paintings and sculptures) b. usually capitalized (1) : an annual exhibition of such works; especially : one held by a national society of artists (2) : an annual exhibition usually international in scope of outstanding photographs, color slides, and transparencies 4. : a business establishment or shop having stylishness < a shoe salon > < a beauty salon > < a reducing salon > |