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means A gathering where people meet to talk about ideas, art, or culture — or, in business form, a shop offering beauty and grooming services.

from From French 'salon,' meaning a large reception room, itself borrowed from Italian 'salone' — an augmentative of 'sala,' meaning hall, which traces back to a Germanic root for a single-room dwelling. The word entered rooms before it entered conversation: it first meant the physical parlor where 17th- and 18th-century French hosts, often women, gathered writers, philosophers, and artists for talk and debate. The intellectual gathering took the room's name with it, and later the word wandered further still, into hair and beauty 'salons' — rooms that kept the polish but traded the philosophy for scissors.