Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
alt. (context US English) A salon where hairdressers and beauticians work. n. (context US English) A salon where hairdressers and beauticians work.
WordNet
n. a shop where hairdressers and beauticians work [syn: salon, beauty salon, beauty parlour, beauty shop]
Usage examples of "beauty parlor".
Like a little child she looked in her cream-colored flannel nightgown, with her beauty parlor blond hair in rivulets down each side of her face.
Next to the beauty parlor, the tavern was her favorite spot in town.
Ellen sat at her desk, sorting out many kinds of blonde, red and black hair and little scimitars of fingernails gathered from her manicurist job at the Mellin Village beauty parlor fifteen miles over.
He wondered if the fumes in the beauty parlor were getting him down.
At six o'clock night before last I was in a beauty parlor in Reno, having a permanent wave.
With the exception of a single framed picture of Jesus looking fresh from the nearest beauty parlor, it might have been yet another doctor's office--a doctor that read books and wrote on long lined yellow pads in a child's blue script (next Sunday's sermon was already underway).
About two-fifteen she entered Minnie Frankens beauty parlor, stayed an hour, and came out with her hair pinned up in tight curls and a silk scarf around her head and tied under her chin.
Elvin could hear her talking again as she got Gary in the beauty parlor chair and spun him to face the mirror.
He checked the directory and dialed a long-distance call through to the biggest beauty parlor in New Texas City.
If ever there was a place where a woman would putter around, patting mud packs on her face and sitting under a drier, it would be a velvet-soft, diamond-gem beauty parlor!