salon

Part of speech: noun

A drawing- room; a fashionable reception.

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Usage examples "salon":

  1. I have always been able to get up at the break of day to go sketching- it was at daybreak that I made my sketch in the Defleury gardens that captured the French art eye enough to get me my Salon mention. - "The Tinder-Box", Maria Thompson Daviess.
  2. " You asked me in Maraquito's salon. - "The Secret Passage", Fergus Hume.
  3. When she issued forth, he turned and apologised for having interrupted her, believing that the salon would be unoccupied at this early hour. - "The Hour and the Man An Historical Romance", Harriet Martineau.