beauty salon

American  

[byoo-tee suh-lon] / ˈbju ti səˌlɒn /

noun

• beauty salons
  plural

1. an establishment where people, especially women, go for hairdressing, manicures, or other cosmetic treatments.

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beauty salon British  

noun

1. an establishment providing women with services to improve their beauty, such as hairdressing, manicuring, facial treatment, and massage

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• beauty salons
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of beauty salon

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

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Example Sentences

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beauty salon

Paramedics arrived to find one woman dead and that a car had crashed through the front of a beauty salon, according to NBC4.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 9, 2026

Ruger is headquartered in a nondescript two-story office block in Southport, Conn., next to a massage parlor and beauty salon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 21, 2026

She was crossing the border en route to Oman, where she lives and owns a beauty salon.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 22, 2026

But the conflict has affected all corners of life in Russia -- even splitting the beauty salon outside Moscow where she works.

From Barron's ● Feb. 23, 2026

Each month, Keav would travel with Ma to a beauty salon to have her hair styled and her nails painted.

From "First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers" by Loung Ung

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