beauty salon
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of beauty salon
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
Example Sentences
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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
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
A beauty salon, including barbers, pedicurists and manicurists, is also on hand, along with a laundry service and dry cleaners.
From BBC ● Feb. 3, 2026
Daria Lushchyk, manager of a local beauty salon in Vyshgorod, described how her staff had to finish work on clients in a shelter during air raids and said the power outages had made work "hell".
From Barron's ● Dec. 31, 2025
She thinks of an article she read at the beauty salon, by a Jewish lady who survived a concentration camp.
From "In the Time of the Butterflies" by Julia Alvarez
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