Salon
['sælɒn] or [sə'lɑn]
Definition
(noun.) elegant sitting room where guests are received.
(noun.) gallery where works of art can be displayed.
(noun.) a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work.
Checker: Mara--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.
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Definition
n. a drawing-room: a fashionable reception esp. a periodic gathering of notable persons in the house of some social queen: the great annual exhibition of works by living artists at the Palais des Champs Elysé–‘s in Paris.
Editor: Moll
Examples
- John William Ward, to the Salon des Etrangers, not knowing that an introduction was necessary, when they were refused admittance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- And he begged me so earnestly to return to the salon, that, without discourtesy, I could not but comply. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The teacher ran to the salon door. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I shan't stay over--the Gormers have paid for my SALON-LIT, said Mrs. Fisher with simplicity. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Yes, said Dorothea, without pause; show him into the salon. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The next moment I sat in a cold, glittering salon, with porcelain stove, unlit, and gilded ornaments, and polished floor. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- This is not chill, and polished, and fireless like the _salon_. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- If Monseigneur would have the distinguished goodness to occupy the other salon especially reserved for him, for but five minutes, all would go well. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Mr. Rochester lay down on a sofa in a pretty room called the salon, and Sophie and I had little beds in another place. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She called on Madame Beck, and sent for me into the salon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I made straight for the salon. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Go to your practising, said I to her at once: away with you to the little salon! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Paul disclosed a parlour, or salon--very tiny, but I thought, very pretty. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- And Alfred appeared from the inner salon, where he was talking to Madame Beck, receiving the blended felicitations and reprimands of that lady. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- The Hall of the Opera is granted; the Salon d'Hercule shall be drawing-room. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Many people did so fancy, and Becky was for a while one of the most dashing ladies of the Countess's salons. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- We find the meetings going on in salons that were not wanted, in orangeries and tennis-courts, and so forth. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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