From French salon, either augmentative of salle, or borrowed from Italian salone ("hall"), augmentative form of sala, salla; in both cases borrowed from a Germanic source such as Old High German sal ("house, hall"), from Proto-Germanic *salÄ…, from Proto-Indo-European *sol-, derived from *sel-. salon.
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