||Sa`lon" (?), n. [F. See
Saloon.] An apartment for the reception of company; hence,
in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable
society.
||Sa`lon" (?), n. 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).
||Sa`lon" (?), n. [F. See
Saloon.] An apartment for the reception of company; hence,
in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable
society.
||Sa`lon" (?), n. 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).
