barbershop
Americannoun
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especially British, barber's shop. the place of business of a barber.
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the singing of four-part harmony in barbershop style or the music sung in this style.
adjective
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specializing in the unaccompanied part-singing of popular songs in which four voices move in close, highly chromatic harmony.
a barbershop quartet.
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characteristic of such part-singing.
noun
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the premises of a barber
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(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 1930s
a barbershop quartet
Etymology
Origin of barbershop
Example Sentences
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Starting as a teenager in the 1950s, he sang vocal harmony with a group called the Parliaments at a New Jersey barbershop.
It’s why he spends much of the film in uniform, as a traffic warden, as a member of a barbershop quartet, and later as the new member of Ray’s biker gang.
From Los Angeles Times
In 2006, they opened a space in Silver Lake that functioned as a barbershop with a couple of record crates.
From Los Angeles Times
Styles said within a year or two of starting his barbershop, they’d started having issues with homeless people gathering in front of the business.
From Los Angeles Times
Saman says working illegally in a car wash, barbershop or mini-mart would have been very easy to do, but he told us he would never have done that.
From BBC
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