beauty salon
Americannoun
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beauty salons
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of beauty salon
An Americanism dating back to 1905–10
Example Sentences
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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
"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
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
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
He took me to a beauty salon, and we found a cheap wig—curly black synthetic hair.
From "How Dare the Sun Rise" by Sandra Uwiringiyimana
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