Meanings
- not comparableAcceptable 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 331 more example
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
- Germansalonfähig
- Englishsalonfähig
Borrowed from German salonfähig.
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Danish salonfähig
- salonfähigappropriate in polite company
Finnish salonkikelpoinen
- salonkikelpoinenappropriate in polite company
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