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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
manicurist
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ If your manicurist gets scissors out, immediately head for the door.
▪ Some manicurists will then buff the nail with a chamois pad to impart a sheen on the finished item.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
manicurist

manicurist \man"i*cur`ist\, n. [F., fr. L. manus hand + curare to cure.] A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their fingernails; -- formerly called a manicure.

manicurist

manicure \man"i*cure\, n. [F., fr. L. manus hand + curare to cure.] A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails; -- an older term for a manicurist.

[Men] who had taken good care of their hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure.
--Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
manicurist

1884, from manicure (n.) after its sense shifted + -ist.

Wiktionary
manicurist

n. A person who performs manicures.

WordNet
manicurist

n. a beautician who cleans and trims and polishes the fingernails

Usage examples of "manicurist".

Bonnie was a manicurist in the barbershop of the Peabody Hotel, where her husband worked as the night desk clerk.

There he had his hair trimmed in the Peabody barbershop, and had his nails done while he was in the barber chair by the Peabody manicurist, Bonnie Lee Rayfus.

At noon exactly his car always took him to meet his manicurist at the apartment hc kept in the Residencia Vista del Palacio.

Eclaire to boast a genuine French manicurist who could drop heavy names like Dior and Gillaud.

And where on earth was I going to find another manicurist as good as Angie?

If the manicurist says the victim never wore Cajun Spice, we ask why she wants us to know that.

Max sat down again at the small manicurist table, then picked up an orangewood stick to push back her cuticles.

She was at peace beneath the deft hands of the hairdresser, the manicurist, the cosmetician with her box of paints.

Over the next few years she tried her hand at being a manicurist, a singer, and a computer student, but always wound up back on drugs and out on the street.

She was possibly the most beautiful manicurist that any of the clients had ever seen.

If things worked well she would have an agent and a proper modelling contract, and she would not be working as a manicurist in Haywards by this time next year.

Even if Robbie had not told Evon that he engaged a manicurist and a stylist to come to the home weekly, it would have been plain.

He was followed by a dietician who was force-fed boiling pabulum until he choked to death, a cook who was microwaved, a carpenter-handyman who was sawed in half, a manicurist who was fatally trimmed, a houri who was impaled.

To my right, a manicurist worked on a client, who was having her fingernails painted a bubblegum pink.

And where can I get a manicurist and an hourly supply of chocolates, and where can I buy silk yarns?