Salon : nm (word from Italian salon, augmentative of DINING « Gym ").
The word “living room” has several meanings:
1. Piece reception (in a house or apartment).
Large living room.
Small living room (boudoir, smoking room).
Lounge-library.
Living-dining room (living-room, living room).
Lounge bar (saloon).
Waiting room (of a doctor, dentist, etc.) (waiting room).
By metonymy: Furniture of living room. A Louis XVI salon.
2. Location de meeting in a maison where one receives regularly; there Company (socialites, artists, personalities various) who meets there. The literary salons of the XNUMXth and XNUMXth centuries centuries.
– Quotation from the French writer Marcel Proust (1871-1922): “The snobs accustomed to quoting a salon according to the people whom the mistress of the house excludes rather than according to those whom she receives”.
Accustomed to salons (salonnard).
A parlor conversation, socialite.
hold, doing living room.
By extension : Do living room: to be gathered in a place, well settled, and to converse.
Phrase: The last salon where one talks, is said as a joke to all meeting where people chat.
3. Hall (of a establishment open to public insurance).
Hairdressing salon: hairdresser's shop.
Living room beauty, where one women of care aesthetic (institute).
Tea Room : pastry ou local arranged for use on the spot of cakes and drinks usually not alcoholic.
Fitting rooms, at a couturier, a tailor.
Reception rooms of a maison high fashion.
Salons individuals (of a large restaurant).
The lounges (of a large Hotel: coins one client can book for reception.
Lounge car, in some luxury trains.
The saloon cars of a pullman.
In Canada, funeral home or mortuary.
4. Square living room Louvre which served as an exhibition hall from 1737.
Periodic exhibition of works byartists living (painting, sculpture, etc.).
The Salon of Independent Artists.
Autumn Fair.
Review of this exhibition.
The Salons of Diderot, of Baudelaire.
Fair and periodical exhibition (most often annual) where we present new products various and culinary (fair).
The Motor Show, Household Arts.
The Book Fair.