n.
- an establishment where a hairdresser, beautician, or couturier conducts their trade.
- a reception room in a large house.
- chiefly historical a regular gathering of writers, artists, etc., held in a fashionable household.
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(Salon)
an annual exhibition of the work of living artists held by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris (originally in the Salon d'Apollon in the Louvre).
Etymology
C17: from Fr. (see saloon).