salon
n. countablen. a place where you go to get professional beauty treatments like a haircut or a manicure. It can also mean a regular meeting of artists or thinkers in a private home to talk about new ideas.
n. an establishment where hairdressers, beauticians, or similar professionals provide aesthetic services. Historically, it refers to a regular social gathering of eminent people, typically held in a private residence, to discuss literature, art, or politics.
She visits the salon every month to get her hair colored.
The local beauty salon offers a wide range of services including facials and professional makeup application.
During the eighteenth century, the literary salon served as a vital intellectual hub where philosophers and writers could debate radical new ideas away from the strict control of the state.
Borrowed from French salon (“reception room”), 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”). Cognate with Old High German sal (“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl (“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село (selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala (“island”). Doublet of saloon.
In its historical sense, it often takes the preposition 'of' to describe the host, such as 'the salon of Madame de Staël'.