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Jackson6612 Posted 11 years ago
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A fashionable assemblage of notables (as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) held by custom
salon
1: an elegant apartment or living room (as in a fashionable home)
2: a fashionable assemblage of notables (as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) held by custom at the home of a prominent person
(Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salon)
Which definition of "custom" from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/custom fits in the context above? Please use the definitions given under the heading "Full Definition of CUSTOM". Thanks.
1: an elegant apartment or living room (as in a fashionable home)
2: a fashionable assemblage of notables (as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) held by custom at the home of a prominent person
(Source: http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/salon)
Which definition of "custom" from http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/custom fits in the context above? Please use the definitions given under the heading "Full Definition of CUSTOM". Thanks.
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1a Salons were especially popular in Paris, both before the French revolution and during the 19th-20th centuries. org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#27_rue_de_Fleurus:_The_Stein_salon
- 1a Salons were especially popular in Paris, both before the French revolution and during the 19th-20th centuries.
- org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#27_rue_de_Fleurus:_The_Stein_salon
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Salons were especially popular in Paris, both before the French revolution and during the 19th-20th centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#27_rue_de_Fleurus:_The_Stein_salon
Salons were especially popular in Paris, both before the French revolution and during the 19th-20th centuries.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gertrude_Stein#27_rue_de_Fleurus:_The_Stein_salon
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Thank you.
Then, couldn't it have been:
"a fashionable assemblage of notables (as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) customarily held at the home of a prominent person"?
Kindly let me know. Thanks.
Then, couldn't it have been:
"a fashionable assemblage of notables (as literary figures, artists, or statesmen) customarily held at the home of a prominent person"?
Kindly let me know. Thanks.
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The meanings are very similar. I sense that "by custom" has more of the quality of honoring a long-time cultural tradition in that place. Customarily is used for traditions within families, "by custom" has a connotation of a wider society. But they are nearly interchangeable.
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