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Salon

noun

Gallery where works of art can be displayed.

A shop where hairdressers and beauticians work. Synonyms: beauty parlor, beauty parlour, beauty salon, beauty shop.

Elegant sitting room where guests are received.

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"Salon" Quotes from Famous Books

... took their coats, giving Barby a courtly bow. "Dr. Bartouki asks if you will please join him in the salon. It ...

— The Egyptian Cat Mystery • Harold Leland Goodwin

... Marguerite re-entered with Varville had never been so glittering and reckless as on the night when it gathered in Olympe's salon for the fourth act. There were chandeliers hung from the ceiling, I remember, many servants in livery, gaming-tables where the men played with piles of gold, and a staircase down which the guests made their entrance. After all the others had ...

— My Antonia • Willa Cather

... with officers, lying up for repairs, and Ethel is queen bee among them. It's not only for herself; it is what you would call Fate. She happens to be the only girl of her set who is just out from London; she had met a good many of them there, and now she is holding a veritable salon. She even has one sacred teacup, set up on a high shelf ever since the ...

— On the Firing Line • Anna Chapin Ray and Hamilton Brock Fuller

... seem very long to me," she said, receiving his kisses on her forehead. "But stay in the salon, and speak loud, that I may hear your voice; it ...

— Juana • Honore de Balzac

... laugh. He kept them all alive by his coarse, easy, impudent wit; in which there was more vulgarity and dirtiness than ill-nature. He had a fund of bonhommie, which set his visitors at their ease, for no one was afraid of being bitten by the chained dog they came to pat. His salon became famous; and the admission to it was a diploma of wit. He kept out all the dull, and ignored all the simply great. Any man who could say a good thing, tell a good story, write a good lampoon, ...

— The Wits and Beaux of Society - Volume 1 • Grace Wharton and Philip Wharton

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