What's the difference between parlor and salon?

Parlor


Definition:

  • (n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
  • (n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
  • (n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.
  • (n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A total of 87 cervical specimens of unselected female sex workers in massage parlors were tested by an enzyme amplified immunoassay IDEIA Chlamydia test and cell culture for the presence of Chlamydia trachomatis.
  • (2) Data were obtained by a massage parlor worker--an unnamed coauthor--who recorded information about every personal customer during her initial period of work.
  • (3) Here’s a sex freak father, hanging around with whores and massage parlors and swinging and all that,” he said, of the rumors that spread about him.
  • (4) Water was offered for 10 min at 1300 h to simulate time in a milking parlor.
  • (5) Culicoides insignis was recovered from samples taken from muddy areas in pastures and margins of vegetated ponds, whereas C. variipennis was collected around waste lagoons and from mud contaminated by effluent from milking parlors.
  • (6) Parlor throughput was greatest for gel and wash treatments.
  • (7) Even if you changed the fashion show to a car show and the beauty parlor to a gym, it’s hard to imagine how you could take the camp out of the script.
  • (8) He reports having had a variety of heterosexual experiences in the past, has come to the parlor because of lack of sexual partner at this particular time or because of curiosity, will come to orgasm during the genital massage, and will find it sexually satisfying.
  • (9) The 329 women worked in established locales such as saunas, massage parlors, and nightclubs.
  • (10) The major source of infections in the males younger than 25 years old was their girl friends or so-called pick-up friends, and that of the males older than 25 years old workers serving at an amusement center, for example, bars and so-called special massage parlor, which accounted for about three fourths of the male cases between 35 and 44 years old.
  • (11) They begin with the assumptions that massage parlors are brothels renamed and that the customers are problematic individuals seeking impersonal sexual exchanges.
  • (12) One brother's symptoms were provoked by attending an ultraviolet A suntanning parlor.
  • (13) In occupational rehabilitation they are concerned with monthly luncheon, play entertainment games, go to movies, beauty parlors, ceramics, sewing activities, learning to read and write, and some parties in relevant national dates, all this at the hospital premises.
  • (14) The article covers information in the following areas of photo-protection: nature of solar radiation; classification of normal individuals into sun-reactive skin types I-VI; minimal erythema doses of UVB and UVA radiation for individuals of skin types I-VI; classification of sunscreens and SPF values of brand-name sunscreens; a list of UVB- and UVA-absorbing chemicals used in sunscreen formulations in the USA; guidelines for recommending topical sunscreens for the prevention of sunburn, skin photoaging, and skin cancer; and concerns about the harmful effects of UVA radiation and tanning parlors on human skin and the methods used to minimize the potential damaging effects of UVA.
  • (15) Lesions on the udder of lactating animals and the air in the milking parlor were also sampled.
  • (16) The risk of residue occurrence was decreased in association with the use of milk residue test kits, when the farmer believed that increasing the dose of antibiotic required an increase in the withholding time of milk, and when tie stall and pipeline milking systems were used rather than milking parlors or tie stall and dumping station systems.
  • (17) Prostitutes were divided into two groups according to the type of place where they worked: direct prostitutes (in brothels, n = 217) and indirect prostitutes (in massage parlors, n = 139).
  • (18) Needed research includes studying learned helplessness; analysis and economics of alternative husbandry systems for veal calves (and cows) freestall design and surfaces; and shade, cooling, and misting of mangers and holding pens prior to entering the parlor.
  • (19) By the end of the 19th century, women-only parlor spaces had been created in other establishments, including photography studios, hotels, banks and department stores.
  • (20) A 65-year-old woman developed a severe, generalized phototoxic reaction following a visit to a suntan parlor.

Salon


Definition:

  • (n.) An apartment for the reception of company; hence, in the plural, fashionable parties; circles of fashionable society.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Outdoor sunlight exposure during the workshift and tanning salon use were identified as risk factors; the most severe cutaneous reactions tended to occur among tanning salon users.
  • (2) "I wanted to see if I had wasted my time writing," he said, according to a translation from the French by Salon .
  • (3) Martin Precious, 60, was a hairdresser at a high-end London salon with celebrity clients until severe depression forced him to give up his job.
  • (4) She told the investigative website Mediapart : "Nicolas Sarkozy also received his envelope, it took place in one of the small salons on the ground floor, close to the dining room.
  • (5) Obviously she’s probably felt for years that she was black on the inside and denied it all through her childhood ... since she’s transitioned and identifies herself as black, than we should just let her be and live her life in peace.” Mary Elizabeth Williams, a Salon writer, echoed those who said Dolezal’s alleged fraud was unforgivable.
  • (6) It is in a majestic salon, the walls of which are decorated with flamboyant 18th-century Flemish tapestries with a Tiepolo fresco adorning the ceiling, while the terrace overlooks a landscaped garden.
  • (7) Confessions of a location scout: why the New York beloved of the movies doesn't exist any more Read more Meanwhile, those apartment and condo owners who are full-time residents routinely join landlords in jacking up commercial rents, driving out beloved small businesses and neighbourhood eateries, and reducing the cityscape to a monoculture of faceless chain stores, nail salons, bank branches and overpriced restaurants.
  • (8) Bean said Maslin purchased a knife and went to the salon to attack her.
  • (9) One woman who went to both Barney’s and Stein’s salons but had plenty going on at her own base, the bookshop Shakespeare and Company, was Sylvia Beach, who numbered among her great achievements the publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses .
  • (10) Mitogen responsiveness and the capacity to repair genetic damage were measured in lymphocytes collected from young, healthy, adult Caucasians immediately before exposure in commercial tanning salons and again 24 h after exposure.
  • (11) Her training in a salon near Centre Street is funded by British charity Y Care International.
  • (12) Every image with text, including banners, posters and a small notice on a beauty salon wall, has been translated and checked both in South and North Korea.
  • (13) Results revealed a disparity between known health risks of UVR exposure and safety information provided to tanning salon customers.
  • (14) Pictures of the president are everywhere – barbershops, diners, nail salons and bodegas.
  • (15) There is something marvellous, even monumental, about her honesty, the unabashed importance she attaches to every event: "I went to Paris for two days with my husband, determined while I was there to have my hair cut in a French salon.
  • (16) Hairdresser Taylor Ferguson, whose salon is on Bath Street, tweeted: “Full-on #stormyweather, drama on Bath Street after big chunks of roof from Marks Hotel - next door to salon - blew off onto street.
  • (17) Open 10am-11pm (or later) daily Literary Salon at The Wash Photograph: Chris Scott Ever since Edinburgh became the world's first Unesco City of Literature, in 2004, those given the task of spreading books and ideas across the capital have rarely missed a trick.
  • (18) Tire salons, automobile dealerships and wonderful, wonderful billboards reaching as far as the eye can see.
  • (19) Bring over some food and a bottle of wine … and we go out and we talk about politics.” Americans discover a new must-read for the Trump age: the US constitution Read more There’s a secret Facebook group, common among neighborhood salons for planning, but most discussion happens around the fire.
  • (20) Forensics officers have been inside the beauty salon.

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