beautician
Americannoun
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beauticians
plural
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a person trained to style and dress the hair; hairdresser.
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a manager or an employee of a beauty salon.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of beautician
Example Sentences
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She worked at her parents’ general store and for a beautician.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 23, 2026
Like many of her fellow volunteers, Hungarian beautician Krisztina Menczel sat idle in the past elections that kept nationalist Prime Minister Viktor Orban in power.
From Barron's ● Apr. 3, 2026
He didn’t see the beautician in the week leading up to this game, however, because his mom was in town and therefore he didn’t have the time.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 10, 2026
Employees sent on house calls, like the 18-year-old beautician, were typically licensed by the state boards of cosmetology or massage therapy.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 31, 2025
It was around this time that strong pressure was put on me to stop playing with Mundín and to join the other young-lady cousins in their grownup beautician games and boy gossip inside the house.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
"Many beauticians often have a little too much freedom. They think they have learned and, without being surgeons, sometimes perform surgical procedures," Kyrgyz plastic surgeon Iskender Kachkinbayev told AFP.
From Barron's ● Jul. 17, 2026
The UK Health Security Agency recently linked 41 confirmed cases of botulism to the use of an unlicensed toxin bought from beauticians over the summer.
From BBC ● Nov. 11, 2025
As a prescriber, she was required under professional rules to meet and examine each patient in person before issuing a prescription, the document that allows beauticians on the high street to inject.
From BBC ● Sep. 29, 2025
She sat patiently as ardent beauticians prepared her for her formal investiture, a highlight of the three-day festival — or vela — that celebrates muxe culture here every November.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 11, 2024
“The beauticians got a group, they marched. Everybody marched after the teachers marched.”
From "Because They Marched" by Russell Freedman
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