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noun

Salon n.

An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

An apartment for the reception and exhibition of works of art; hence, an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris by the Society of French Artists; sometimes called the Old Salon. New Salon is a popular name for an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris at the Champs de Mars, by the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National Society of Fine Arts), a body of artists who, in 1890, seceded from the Société des Artistes Français (Society of French Artists).

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... the floor. She has dropped her handkerchief.) Permit me. (He picks it up, presenting it to her with a smile and a bow; then looks casually at his watch.) Ah, five o'clock already. (To SOPHIA KARNINA.) Madame, in your salon pleasure destroys the memory of time. ...

— Redemption and Two Other Plays • Leo Tolstoy et al

... pleases me. It is an old Georgian house, with long wings stretching right and left, and from a large salon in the ...

— The Reflections of Ambrosine - A Novel • Elinor Glyn

... lumbered into the inn, and I, having guided him up the narrow staircase to his room, descended to my bunk in a corner of the tiny salon. My ...

— The Beloved Vagabond • William J. Locke

... with which a number of them had slight, if any, connection, a misnomer. The French name for the group, "the men of 1830," is more correct; for it was about that time that their influence in the Salon began to be felt, as a result of the pictorial invasion of Constable. Lacking the poetic feeling of Corot, and more realistic in his aims, though not always in result, Rousseau met with instant success when he exhibited for the first time at ...

— McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896 • Various

... entrance hall doors led into rooms on either hand. We were shown into a salon on the left, and bidden to await ...

— Vocal Mastery - Talks with Master Singers and Teachers • Harriette Brower

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