salon

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
salon/ˈsalɒn/

▶noun

• 1 an establishment where a hairdresser, beautician, or couturier conducts their trade.

• 2 a reception room in a large house.

• 3 chiefly historical a regular gathering of writers, artists, etc., held in a fashionable household.

• 4 (Salon) an annual exhibition of the work of living artists held by the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in Paris (originally in the Salon d'Apollon in the Louvre).

– origin C17: from Fr. (see saloon).