salon

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A large room, such as a drawing room, used for receiving and entertaining guests.
• noun A periodic gathering of people of social or intellectual distinction.
• noun A hall or gallery for the exhibition of works of art.
• noun A commercial establishment offering a product or service related to fashion.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Specifically, a periodical social gathering of men and women representative of the wit, fashion, literature, art, or politics of the time. The salon flourished principally in France during the eighteenth century.
• noun An apartment for the reception of company; a saloon; hence, a fashionable gathering or assemblage.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.
• noun An apartment for the reception and exhibition of works of art; hence, an annual exhibition of paintings, sculptures, 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 1890, seceded from the Société des Artistes Français (Society of French Artists).

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun a large room, especially one used to receive and entertain guests
• noun a gathering of people for a social or intellectual meeting
• noun an art gallery
• noun a beauty salon or similar establishment

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work
• noun elegant sitting room where guests are received
• noun gallery where works of art can be displayed