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salonfähig

salonfähig adjective: acceptable for polite society.

Adjective

salonfähig (not comparable)

  1. Acceptable for polite society.
    • Wits and miniaturists have applied their talents to rendering languages, perhaps more crucially now as direct ethnic derogation is no longer salonfähig.1987, David Justice, The Semantics of Form in Arabic in the Mirror of European Languages, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, page 33
    • Since the Holocaust, fantasies of Jewish power are no longer Salonfähig, no longer openly expressible in “polite” society—at least in Western Europe and North America—even if continuities also persist in antisemitic thinking as do traumatic aftereffects for Jews around the world.2017, Nadia Valman, Laurence Roth, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Jewish Cultures, Routledge, →ISBN, page 130

Origin of salonfähig

Borrowed from German salonfähig.

Questions about salonfähig

What does salonfähig mean?
Salonfähig means acceptable for polite society.
What part of speech is salonfähig?
Salonfähig is an adjective.

Words near salonfähig in the dictionary

  1. Salon-de-Provence
  2. Salona
  3. Salone
  4. salonful
  5. salonfuls
  6. salonfähig
  7. Salong
  8. Salonga
  9. Salongas
  10. Salonica
  11. salonical

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