barbershop

[ bahr-ber-shop ]

/ ˈbɑr bərˌʃɒp /

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noun

Also called, especially British, barber's shop . the place of business of a barber.

the singing of four-part harmony in barbershop style or the music sung in this style.

adjective

specializing in the unaccompanied part-singing of popular songs in which four voices move in close, highly chromatic harmony: a barbershop quartet.

characteristic of such part-singing.

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Origin of barbershop

First recorded in 1570–80; barber + shop

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How to use barbershop in a sentence

Finding the shop is a trip in itself and an introduction to a slice of history.
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I suspect [Teresa] will get money sent in to her, so she can shop at the commissary.
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I remember being appalled that he killed off Little Nell in The Old Curiosity Shop.
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They were getting more imaginative,” a pawn shop owner thinks of his addict customers in “Back of Beyond.
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But at the instant I caught a sight of my counterfeit presentment in a shop window, and veiled my haughty crest.
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Then a fat, untidy old man appeared in the doorway of a cubicle within the shop, and Edwin Clayhanger blushed.
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She wore a little red hood, and looked wistfully after Davy as the shop went out of sight.
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Robin Hood stared at him for a moment with a puzzled expression, and then walked into his little shop, and Davy turned away.
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His Shop is the Randenvous of spitting, where men dialogue with their noses, and their conversation is smoke.
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British Dictionary definitions for barbershop

barbershop

/ (ˈbɑːbəˌʃɒp) /

noun

mainly US the premises of a barber

(modifier) denoting or characterized by a type of close four-part harmony for male voices, popular in romantic and sentimental songs of the 1920s and 1930sa barbershop quartet

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