noun
salon
SA-lon
noun
1
A business offering beauty treatments such as hair styling, manicures, or skincare.
"She booked an appointment at the salon to get her hair cut before the wedding."
2
A large, elegant room for receiving guests, or a gathering of people for cultured conversation.
"In eighteenth-century Paris, writers and philosophers met in fashionable salons to debate ideas."
How to Use Salon
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishMost commonly a hair or beauty business today, though it originally meant an elegant social gathering room.
Easily confused with
saloon
Common pairings
hair salon
beauty salon
nail salon
Word Forms
salons plural
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Etymology
From French salon, "reception room," ultimately from Italian sala, "hall." A doublet of "saloon," which took a more informal, American turn in meaning.