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5 words match “SALON”

SALON n. 2 definitions
ptures, etc., held in Paris by the Society of French Artists; -- sometimes called the Old Salon. New Salon is a popular name for an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, etc., held in Paris at the Champs de Mars, by the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National Society of Fine Arts), a body of artists who, in 18…
THESSALONIAN a. 2 definitions
Of or pertaining to Thessalonica, a city of Macedonia. -- n.
ANSWERABLE a.
ly course Holland. This revelation . . . was answerable to that of the apostle to the Thessalonians. Milton.
MERLIN n.
A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. æsalon).
PRECIEUSE n.
An affected woman of polite society, esp. one of the literary women of the French salons of the 17th century.