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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hairdresser
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
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▪ I even resorted to going to a hairdresser who guaranteed that I'd emerge with dead straight hair.
▪ I remember, at the close of the fifties, going to a hairdresser and praying that he wouldn't talk.
▪ I was my hair every other day and usually only go to my hairdresser before a party.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ I'm going to the hairdresser after work.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Behind the scenes ... chaos ... smooth operators ... and hairdressers everywhere.
▪ Georgina is a chef and Rachel is a hairdresser!
▪ Once, only your hairdresser knew for sure and that was good.
▪ One of them was my friend Ada's brother, a men's hairdresser.
▪ The hairdresser must listen to the client, and viceversa.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hairdresser

Hairdresser \Hair"dress`er\ (-dr[e^]s`[~e]r), n. One who dresses or cuts hair; a barber.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hairdresser

1770, from hair + dresser. Related: Hairdressing (1771).

Wiktionary
hairdresser

n. A person who cuts or styles hair as an occupation or profession.

WordNet
hairdresser

n. someone who cuts or beautifies hair [syn: hairstylist, stylist, styler]

Wikipedia
Hairdresser

A hairdresser is a person whose occupation is to cut or style hair in order to change or maintain a person's image. This is achieved using a combination of hair coloring, haircutting, and hair texturing techniques. Most hairdressers are professionally licensed as either a hairdresser, a barber or a cosmetologist.

Usage examples of "hairdresser".

She had ached to point out that the shockingly expensive hairdresser who cut it once monthly and the even more horrendously expensive lightening procedure which involved a trip to London every month could hardly be described as natural, but what was the point?

I was so pleased with what she told me that when I took leave of the company I embraced the hairdresser, and drawing a handsome gold watch from my fob I begged him to accept it as a souvenir of me.

I obtained from my captain a French soldier to serve me, and I was well pleased when I found that the man was a hairdresser by trade, and a great talker by nature, for he could take care of my beautiful head of hair, and I wanted to practise French conversation.

About this time, the beginning of 1771, I was visited by Mariuccia, whom I had married ten years before to a young hairdresser.

One extremely fashionable guest, Lady Oakes, had brought along her own personal hairdresser, who had been provided with a room halfway down the hall.

The hairdresser who did those two wigs was the same one who accompanied Mrs.

I believe that the hairdresser who traveled to Beaumont Castle with Lady Oakes may be the murderer-for-hire whom we are seeking.

They made it quite clear that a fashionable hairdresser takes great pride in creating his own unique designs.

I do not think it would have been at all difficult for Pierce to convince her that she needed her hairdresser with her the night of the costume ball.

As astonishing as it is, I cannot deny that the hairdresser is a link between the suspects and the death of at least one of the victims.

But I must tell you that it is extremely difficult to envision a hairdresser as a cold-blooded murderer-for-hire.

He told them that he had just seen the hairdresser leave, a large satchel in his hand, and that a maid at one of the houses across the street had told him Pierce went out every afternoon at this time.

I have encountered a great many villains in my time, but this is the first hairdresser I have suspected of murder.

I asked Lupin to try and change the hard brushes, he recently made me a present of, for some softer ones, as my hairdresser tells me I ought not to brush my hair too much just now.

A pretty, vain, completely self-centred woman, she divided the rest of her time between shopping and visiting beauticians and hairdressers.