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

"If you do a really great job, people will recommend you," she says and she soon opened a tiny beauty salon that became booked up months in advance.

From BBC ● Jul. 29, 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

Vera, a 42-year-old owner of a beauty salon in the Moscow region, said her supplies have "doubled in price" this year.

From Barron's ● Jun. 5, 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 still had big dreams—maybe she could become an entrepreneur, open a beauty salon or her own fashion company.

From "The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates" by Wes Moore

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