salon French · revision 15628

+ {{infobox|confidence=established|formation=borrowing|attested=1650, Fréart de Chambray|origins=frk *sal}}

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+ ==Pronunciation==

+ * IPA: /sa.lɔ̃/^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Forms==

+ '''salon''' ''m'' (plural salons)^(Wiktionary)

+ Also ''sallon'' (1652).^(TLFi)

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+ ==Etymology==

+ It is [[bor|it|salone|t=large hall]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005) the augmentative of [[m|it|sala|t=hall]],^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992) which the TLFi and the Académie take from French [[salle]];^(TLFi)^(Académie 9) Wiktionary takes ''sala'' from [[lng|sala]].^(Wiktionary) Both go back to a Germanic word for a dwelling, [[frk|*sal]],^(FEW|17, 9b) from [[gem-pro|*salą|t=dwelling, hall]].^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Earliest recorded meaning==

+ It first appears in 1650 in Fréart de Chambray's translation of Palladio's treatise on architecture, for a reception room in a private house.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Semantic evolution==

+ From the reception room the word passed to the society that gathered there: the literary ''salons'' of the 17th and 18th centuries,^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873) and in 1793 Mme de Staël uses it for a place of meeting and conversation;^(TLFi) ''faire salon'' “to hold court, chat” is from 1850.^(TLFi)

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+ Exhibitions of living artists were held every two years in the Salon carré of the Louvre from 1737, so that ''le Salon'' named the exhibition itself (1750) and, after Diderot's ''Salons'', a review of it (1768);^(DHLF 1992)^(TLFi)^(GLLF 1989) later came the ''Salon des refusés'' (1863) and the ''Salon d'automne'' (1903), and any trade show (''Salon de l'automobile'').^(DHLF 1992)^(Petit Robert 2007) In trades it named a room for receiving customers (1798), as in ''salon de coiffure'' and ''salon de thé''.^(TLFi)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Timeline==

+ * 1650 – A reception room (Fréart de Chambray).^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1664 – The date Bloch and Wartburg give (Loret).^(Bloch & Wartburg 1989)^(Grand Robert 2005)

+ * 1678 – ''Salon de feuillage'', a leafy bower.^(DHLF 1992)^(GLLF 1989)

+ * 1737 – Exhibitions begin in the Salon carré of the Louvre.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1750 – ''Salon'' “art exhibition”.^(TLFi)^(DHLF 1992)

+ * 1793 – A gathering place for conversation.^(TLFi)

+ * 1863 – The ''Salon des refusés''.^(DHLF 1992)

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+ ==Meanings==

+ ===Noun===

+ # A [[m|en|living room]], the room where visitors are received.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A set of furniture for such a room.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(TLFi)

+ # A regular gathering of writers, artists and society people at a private house; a [[m|en|salon]].^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Littré 1873)

+ # An [[m|en|exhibition]] or trade show: ''le Salon de l'automobile''.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

+ # A room for customers: ''salon de coiffure'' “hairdresser's”, ''salon de thé'' “tearoom”.^(Petit Robert 2007)^(Wiktionary)

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+ ==Word family==

+ * [[salonnier]]

+ * [[salonnard]]

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+ ==Related words==

+ * [[salle]]

+ * [[en|salon]]

+ * [[en|saloon]]

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+ ==References==

+ {{reflist}}