salon

Meaning

Noun

• A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
• A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
• An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
• A beauty salon or similar establishment.

Origin

• Borrowed from French salon ("reception room"), from Middle French, from Italian salone ("large hall"), augmented form of sala, from Langobardic sala ("room, house, entrance hall"), from Proto-Germanic *salą ("dwelling, house, hall"), from Proto-Indo-European *sel- ("human settlement, village, dwelling"). Cognate with Old High German sal ("room, house, entrance hall"), Old English sæl ("room, hall, castle"), Old Church Slavonic село ("courtyard, village"), Lithuanian sala ("island"). saloon.