ˈhairdresser
One whose business is to dress and cut the hair.
| 1771 Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 112, I was not above six hours under the hands of the hair-dresser. 1802 M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. xvi. 131 [He] went to a hairdresser, to have his hair cut and brought into decent order. 1856 B. Cornwall Barber's Shop xvii. (1883) 161 Valets and ladies' maids have usurped the office of the hairdresser. |