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語源

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”), 古期英語 sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsælɒn/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /səˈlɑn/
• (General Australian) IPA: /səˈlɔn/
• 韻: -ɒn

名詞

salon (plural salons)

1. A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.

   Synonyms: hall, lounge, parlor, guest room

2. A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.

   Synonyms: circle, cenacle

3. (art) An art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
   • 1933, Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B Toklas:

     Matisse showed in every autumn salon and every independent. He was beginning to have a considerable following. Picasso, on the contrary, never in all his life has shown in any salon. His pictures at that time could really only be seen at 27 rue de Fleurus.

4. A beauty salon or similar establishment.

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• loans, Nosal, Alons, Sơn La, lonas, Sloan, Solan, solan, Nolas, Lonas