salon

Signification (Anglais)

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

Concepts

salon

salle

institut de beauté

beauty shop

salon de beauté

salon de coiffure

arrière-salle

parloir

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/səˈlɒn/

Étymologie (Anglais)

Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone (“large hall”), augmented form of sala (“hall”), from Lombardic 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 (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.