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salon (n.)
1690s, a large room or apartment in a palace or great house.
From
French "salon", a reception room.
From Italian "salone", a large hall.
From "sala", hall.
From a Germanic source.
Cf. Old English
"sele"
Old Norse
"salr", hall
Old
High German
"sal"
hall, house,
German "Saal").
From Proto-Germanic hypothetical form*salaz
From Proto-Indo-European hypothetical form *sel-, human settlement.
Cf. Old Church Slavonic
"selo", courtyard, village.
Lithuanian "sala", village.
Sense of "reception room of a Parisian lady"
is from 1810.
Meaning "gathering of fashionable people" first recorded 1888 (the
woman who hosts one is a salonnière).
Meaning "annual exhibition of contemporary
paintings and sculpture in Paris" is from its originally being held in one of
the salons of the Louvre.
Meaning "establishment for hairdressing and beauty
care" is from 1913.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
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