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

See Examples For:

beauty salon

In 2024, Ffion decided to become self-employed, renting a room at a beauty salon and chose to treat both men and women, seeing it as a niche in the town.

From BBC ● Aug. 30, 2026

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

She needs to save $10,000 to $15,000 to add a beauty salon to her mother’s house and send her three children to school.

From "Enrique's Journey" by Sonia Nazario

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