Salon
late 17th century: from French (see saloon).
wiktionary
Borrowed from French salon(“reception room”), from Middle French, from Italian salone(“large hall”), augmented form of sala(“hall”), from Lombardic sala(“room, house, entrance hall”), from Proto-Germanic *salą(“dwelling, house, hall”), from Proto-Indo-European *sel-(“human settlement, village, dwelling”). Cognate with Old High German sal(“room, house, entrance hall”), Old English sæl(“room, hall, castle”), Old Church Slavonic село(selo, “courtyard, village”), Lithuanian sala(“island”). Doublet of saloon.
etymonline
salon (n.)
1690s, "large room or apartment in a palace or great house," from French salon "reception room" (17c.), from Italian salone "large hall," from sala "hall," from a Germanic source (compare Old English sele, Old Norse salr "hall," Old High German sal "hall, house," German Saal), from Proto-Germanic *salaz, from PIE *sel- (1) "human settlement" (source also of Old Church Slavonic selo "courtyard, village," obsolete Polish siolo, Russian selo "village," Lithuanian sala "village").
Sense of "reception room of a Parisian lady" is from 1810; meaning "gathering of fashionable people" first recorded 1888 (the woman who hosts one is a salonnière). Meaning "annual exhibition of contemporary paintings and sculpture in Paris" is from its originally being held in one of the salons of the Louvre. Meaning "establishment for hairdressing and beauty care" is from 1913.
