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Example sentences for "salons"

Lexicographically close words:
sallyport; salmi; salmon; salmons; salon; saloon; saloonkeeper; saloons; salpinia; salsa
  1. When the storm had passed, the life of the salons began anew, but it was very different from what it had been.

  2. The morals of Paris and Versailles were being reflected in the humbler salons of Quebec and Montreal.

  3. The newsmongers of the salons of this period say that Péan stood in well with Madame Pénisseault regardless of consequences until he gallantly yielded his place to a more brilliant star in the person of the dashing Chevalier de Lévis.

  4. She was to sing in one of the most fashionable salons in England: that was very pleasant.

  5. He was seeing, as in a bright and sudden vision, the brilliantly-lighted salons of the Foreign Office in London, with beautiful Marguerite Blakeney gliding queenlike on the arm of the Prince of Wales.

  6. In the Hall of Justice he heard charges against criminal offenders; in the gorgeous salons he received illustrious guests, discoursed with his officers, and played at draughts with his courtiers.

  7. This is the most sumptuous of the salons of the Alcazar; the walls veritably dazzle the spectator with their richness of colouring.

  8. A roofed passage on the right side of the court leads to the wonderful Mudejar halls and the salons of the Catholic kings.

  9. Its courts and salons are redolent of Moorish days, and haunted by the spirits of turbaned sheiks, philosophers, minstrels, and dark-eyed beauties of the harem.

  10. The seventeenth-century tapestries in the salons are magnificent examples of this art.

  11. In these salons the little princess entered, at once upon her royalty.

  12. In every assembly, with all its sparkle of youth and gayety, there is a background of mature age; but though a card-room is generally open, it never seems to draw many from the salons de danse.

  13. The mistress of the place loved open air and movement, as did all the French nobility before an absolute monarchy, in the interest of order and peace, had trained them to rest tranquilly in the salons of Versailles.

  14. The Parisian salons had discovered no other explanation for the hostile attitude which she persisted in maintaining towards the Court of France, which she had so much interest in conciliating.

  15. Monsieur de Montreville walked about his salons with the amiable manner of a host who excels in the art of doing the honors.

  16. Paris, not in the brilliant salons of the capital, could I find a woman who would love me so dearly.

  17. Those who have only seen the capricious diva on the stage or in Parisian salons can form little idea of the proprietress of Cabrières.

  18. The little visiting that takes place in boxes abroad is done during the entr’actes, when people retire to the salons back of their loges to eat ices and chat.

  19. This class of entertainers fail to see that society cannot he run on a philanthropic basis, and so insist on turning their salons into hospitals.

  20. Having achieved this compliment, Jarnonville bowed to the courtesan and lost himself in the crowd that thronged the salons and gardens.

  21. Léodgard did not fail to attend, but in vain did he wander through the salons looking for her whom he burned to see again.

  22. It was hardly possible to move in the salons of the vast mansion which the Prince de Valdimer had hired, and which he had caused to be decorated and illuminated on a most magnificent scale.

  23. At last the marchioness left her seat, to walk through the salons on her husband's arm.

  24. Poetry was invited to withdraw from the salons and come once more to live with nature.

  25. It was not the salons of Ferney that induced him to reside there, but care for his health and a wish to be free from all fear of bastilles.

  26. These noble families opened their salons to the distinguished foreigners who resided among them, and Gibbon seems to have particularly appreciated their good qualities.

  27. Speeches were rehearsed at the salons and action determined.

  28. The centre of social life shifted from Versailles to Paris and the salons gained what the court lost.

  29. In the salons a host of young women found occupation in playing the part of Nina, and some of them appeared to have worked themselves into a condition bordering on lunacy.

  30. Touches (or Camille Maupin, if you prefer it) is prodigiously rich, and presides over one of the most remarkable salons in Paris.

  31. Lucien fell under the charm of the noble peer's arguments; the salons from which he had been exiled for ever, as he thought, but a few months ago, would shortly open their doors for him!

  32. Touches, appearing in society after a dinner given by authors or publishers, and leaving the salons for a supper given in consequence of a bet.

  33. Dumaresque informed him it was to be a fancy dress affair; uniforms would be just the thing; and he parted with the American much more pleased with him than in the salons where they had met heretofore.

  34. Willingly, General;" and traversing two or three salons they reached the private boudoir of the Marquise.

  35. Camors found the General in a state of extraordinary agitation, pacing up and down the three salons which formed the ground floor of the hotel.

  36. All the Emperor’s old adjutants and court officials are invited, and assemble in the big salons near the Jasper Gallery, in which dinner is served at a series of small round or oval tables.

  37. On tables arranged round one of the smaller salons are spread out the various gifts received from family and friends.

  38. Here two magnificent salons had been transformed into bedrooms, one for the Princess, one for the Ober-Gouvernante.

  39. The dining-room and neighbouring salons in Wilhelmshöhe were beautifully furnished in Empire style and in late Louis Quinze.

  40. He had even adroitly managed to prevent his access to the salons of the best society.

  41. I started off to the last of the long suite of salons where they were all assembled.

  42. I thought of him afterward when an angry crowd was battering at the doors of one of the salons where the royalties were having refreshments.

  43. We passed through several salons where there were footmen and pages (no ladies) until we came to a very large one quite at the other end of the palace.

  44. Unfortunately, he was inclined to carry the esprit of the salons into literature and the esprit of literature into politics.

  45. Moreover, he was one of the Republicans who had passed through the salons of the Empire before attaining demagogism.

  46. Obedient to the same ideas as Degas he had to avoid the Salons and only show his pictures gradually in private galleries.

  47. A beautiful painter--this is what he was before everything else, this is his fairest fame, and it is almost inconceivable that the juries of the Salons failed to understand him.

  48. One has to know his admirable life, one has to know well the incredible inertia of the Salons where he appeared, to give him his full due.

  49. I suppose that the French salons were of both sorts.

  50. The question whether salons are possible in America leads my thoughts to other questions which appear to me to lie behind this one, and which primarily concern the well-being of civilized man.

  51. We call it the art of the boudoir, but the boudoir of that period had a nobility like that of those white and gold salons where the seats are disposed with dignity like persons of quality.

  52. Beginning with the Renaissance and particularly during the seventeenth century, the royal courts were the great salons in which the taste of the day was developed.

  53. From the glimpse I had caught of that other function, I fancied that there were likely to be some amusing sights there, and that love was probably treated there in another fashion than in the salons at the front of the house.

  54. She took my wife by the hand and brought us into one of the principal salons from where we could have a view of the gardens.

  55. Levantinized Turks in the salons of Pera.


  56. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "salons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.