One way to hold 'salon': a large, handsome room in a grand house — high ceilings, good chairs, the room you receive people in. Everything else the word does grows out of that room: the gatherings held in it, and later the shops that borrow its elegant air.
From the word’s history
'Salon' came into English in the 1690s from French salon, from Italian salone 'large hall', an augmentative of sala 'hall'. It first meant a large room in a palace or great house; by 1810 it named the reception room of a Parisian lady, by the 1870s-1880s the exhibitions and fashionable gatherings held in such rooms, and only in 1913 an establishment for hairdressing and beauty care.
salon 在一六九零年代從法文 salon 進入英文，源頭是義大利文 salone「大廳」（sala「廳」的加大版）。它一開始就是指宮殿或大宅裡的大房間；一八一零年左右用來指巴黎女主人的會客廳，一八七零至八零年代延伸到在那種房間裡辦的畫展與名流聚會，一直到一九一三年才拿來指美髮美容的店。所以「大廳→聚會→店」是有時間順序的一條線，不是三個各自獨立的意思。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'salon' — https://www.etymonline.com/word/salon
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原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
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salonnoun/ˈsælɒn/
- 1
A large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests.
- 2
A gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting.
- 3
artartsAn art gallery or exhibition; especially the Paris salon or autumn salon.
- 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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