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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.


beauty salon British  

noun

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

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of beauty salon

An Americanism dating back to 1905–10

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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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