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SALON
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Elegant sitting room where guests are received
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("salon" is a kind of...):
front room; living-room; living room; parlor; parlour; sitting room (a room in a private house or establishment where people can sit and talk and relax)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Gallery where works of art can be displayed
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("salon" is a kind of...):
art gallery; gallery; picture gallery (a room or series of rooms where works of art are exhibited)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
Synonyms:
beauty parlor; beauty parlour; beauty salon; beauty shop; salon
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("salon" is a kind of...):
shop; store (a mercantile establishment for the retail sale of goods or services)
Context examples:
Once Mercury is out of retrograde, March 9, spend a little money on yourself—go to the salon or barbershop for a classy haircut, choose a treatment at the spa, or choose some new clothes for the coming season.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
"Madame expects you in the salon!" he cried, needlessly indicating the direction. In this heat every extra gesture was an affront to the common store of life.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
And inside as we wandered through Marie Antoinette music rooms and Restoration salons I felt that there were guests concealed behind every couch and table, under orders to be breathlessly silent until we had passed through.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The last swimmers have come in from the beach now and are dressing upstairs; the cars from New York are parked five deep in the drive, and already the halls and salons and verandas are gaudy with primary colors and hair shorn in strange new ways and shawls beyond the dreams of Castile.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
