salons

plural of salon
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as in museums
a building or part of a building in which objects of interest are displayed at its headquarters the company maintains a fashionable salon filled with works of modern art

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as in places
a building, room, or suite of rooms occupied by a service business a hair salon

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Recent Examples of salons During the Cowboy Carter tour in 2025, mini-salons were part of the tour’s set in stadiums. — Emma Hinchliffe, Fortune, 23 Sep. 2026 Couture is also working with a slew of retailers looking to bring top clients to the brands’ salons. — Footwear News, 23 Sep. 2026 Licensed cosmetologists and estheticians are building careers in luxury salons, medical spas, wellness clinics, education, content creation, and entrepreneurship. — Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 23 Sep. 2026 New York definitely has its own share of Black hair-care deserts, but most salons would attempt to do my hair. — Rachel Cook Northway, Vogue, 22 Sep. 2026 This classic fall color is already a top pick in salons from NY to LA. — Maggie Ryan, Flow Space, 18 Sep. 2026 Many of Jumbo’s dancers write fiction and memoir, host literary salons across Los Angeles and find ways to tell their own stories rather than serve as muses. — Maddie Connors, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2026 Srinivasan said Americans are happy to tip at restaurants, hair salons and other traditional venues, but tipping outside of that? — Sean Krofssik, Hartford Courant, 8 Sep. 2026 That was a big thing that everyone in the salons would always be doing is getting the glosses. — Lauren Valenti, InStyle, 26 Aug. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for salons
Noun
  • Though now joining the collections of major museums, in the 1970s his artworks depicting the hardship and life of Indigenous Bolivians were rescued from the trash outside his former Manhattan studio, according to multiple accounts.
    — Devorah Lauter, ARTnews.com, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Getting there will require the museums to think outside of the needs of traditional museum visitors and donors.
    — Sam Lubell, Curbed, 21 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • Adrià describes a world filtered through adolescence, where people, places and situations can appear idealized, magical or unsettling.
    — Callum McLennan, Variety, 23 Sep. 2026
  • Even as the list has now slimmed down to six titles, the breadth of the places plotted out on the short list remains capacious as ever.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 23 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • After the first edition, other galleries began reaching out to him to ask about the application process only to find out that this fair is, true to its name, invite-only.
    — Maximilíano Durón, ARTnews.com, 21 Sep. 2026
  • The restaurant is housed in a former ironmongery in Le Cinque Vie, a delightful district that lies southwest of the Duomo, where quirky stores and family-run restaurants sit snugly beside art galleries.
    — Kat Chen, Condé Nast Traveler, 21 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • An action sports area is also planned with trampolines, climbing walls and indoor skate facilities.
    — Nicole Buss, Sacbee.com, 25 Sep. 2026
  • Novo is investing billions in manufacturing facilities and, executives said this week, the company aims to be able to increase the number of patients on its GLP-1 drugs tenfold by 2030.
    — Annika Kim Constantino,Elsa Ohlen, CNBC, 25 Sep. 2026
Noun
  • When Russians discovered karaoke, thousands of venues sprang up, from cheap sushi joints to lavish establishments where an orchestra and backup singers accompanied anyone willing to step onto the stage and, for a few minutes, feel like a star.
    — Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026
  • This week’s literary geography quiz is a tour of the cafes, clubs and other establishments around New York City that attracted poets and authors.
    — J. D. Biersdorfer, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026

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“Salons.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/salons. Accessed 27 Sep. 2026.

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