salon
noun/ˈsælɒn/
/səˈlɑːn/
- a shop that gives customers hair or beauty treatment or that sells expensive clothes
- a beauty salon
- a hairdressing salon
Extra ExamplesTopics Shoppingb2, Appearanceb2- He now runs his own hairdressing salon in Melbourne.
- The hotel has just opened a sauna, solarium and beauty salon.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- beauty
- hair
- hairdressing
- …
- go to
- visit
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- (old-fashioned) a room in a large house used for entertaining guests
- (in the past) a regular meeting of writers, artists and other guests at the house of a famous or important person
- a literary salon
Word Originlate 17th cent.: from French, from Italian salone ‘large hall’, augmentative of sala ‘hall’.
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