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   salon

   /ˈsalɒn/

   noun

   • 1. an establishment where a hairdresser, beautician, or couturier conducts trade: "have your hair cut in a professional salon" Similar shopparlourestablishmentplacepremisesbuildingplace of businessboutiquestore
   • 2. a reception room in a large house. Similar reception roomdrawing roommorning roomsitting roomliving roomloungefront roombest roomparlour
   • ▪ a regular social gathering, especially of writers and artists, at the house of a woman prominent in high society. historical
   • ▪ a meeting of intellectuals or other eminent people at the invitation of a celebrity or socialite: North American "Washington political salons"
   • 3. 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.

   Word Origin late 17th century: from French (see saloon).

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