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- noun historical One who attends
salons (social gatherings).
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Mim,” the plainer of two sisters, wanted to be a doctor, but her saloniste parents feared it would make her un-marriageable; so she got a degree in musicology, opened a bookshop and began a correspondence with the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
All About Her Mother 2009
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“Mim,” the plainer of two sisters, wanted to be a doctor, but her saloniste parents feared it would make her un-marriageable; so she got a degree in musicology, opened a bookshop and began a correspondence with the philosopher Bertrand Russell.
All About Her Mother 2009
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No longer will the editor of the company make himself the most famous saloniste in town through literary breakfasts at Barneys.
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No longer will the editor of the company make himself the most famous saloniste in town through literary breakfasts at Barneys.
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He could imagine her the centre of a salon -- she had all the gifts of a saloniste, the power of keeping a talk in hand, of giving her entire thought to her neighbour, and yet holding the whole group in view.
Watersprings Arthur Christopher Benson 1893
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When a designer claims an influence like Madame Récamier, arch-saloniste of Napoleonic Paris, you might anticipate the historicism of a Galliano or a Westwood.
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These included Romantic poets William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt and saloniste man-eater Countess Blessington see elsewhere.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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These included Romantic poets William Hazlitt and Leigh Hunt and saloniste man-eater Countess Blessington see elsewhere.
American Connections James Burke 2007
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