| Salon (salon) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| ||Sa`lon" |
| [F. See
Saloon.] |
An apartment for the reception of company; hence,
in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable
society.
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| Salon (salon) |
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| n. | (?) |
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| ||Sa`lon" |
|
An apartment for
the reception and exhibition of works of art; hence, an annual
exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris by the
Society of French Artists; -- sometimes called the Old
Salon. New Salon is a popular name for
an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris at
the Champs de Mars, by the Société Nationale des Beaux-
Arts (National Society of Fine Arts), a body of artists who, in 1890,
seceded from the Société des Artistes Français
(Society of French Artists).
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