salon
n
1 place where customers go to see a hairdresser, beauty consultant, etc (營業性質的)店, 廳, 院
a `beauty salon 美容院* a `hairdressing salon 美發廳.
2 (formerly) regular gathering of notable guests at the house of a lady of high society; room used for this 沙龍(舊時知名人士在上流社會女主人家的例行聚會或聚會場所)
a literary salon, ie with writers and critics as guests 文學沙龍.
The reader's hair stands on end when he reads in the final pages of the novel that the heroine a dear old lady who had always been so kind to everybody, had, in her youth, poisoned every one of her five husbands.