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salon

Pronunciation: /ˈsa.lɔn/

“salon” is a Polish word. Its 5 meanings in English:

noun

  1. living room
  2. any large room
  3. service point, shop, store, parlor (used especially for shops in a shopping center)
  4. exhibition, show
  5. ruling class, the elite, the establishment

Etymology

Borrowed from French salon, 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”). Possibly a doublet of sioło.

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