cosmetician

[koz-mi-tish-uhn]

noun

1. a person who manufactures or sells cosmetics.

2. a person professionally engaged in the application of cosmetics.

cosmetician

/ ˌkɒzmɪˈtɪʃən /

noun

1. a person who makes, sells, or applies cosmetics

Word History and Origins

Origin of cosmetician¹

First recorded in 1925–30; cosmet(ic) + -ician

Example Sentences

Now a cosmetician enters with her pencils and brushes.

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“I am not confident that the pandemic is over,” said Ilana Danino, 59, a cosmetician and caregiver who was still wearing a mask while walking down an almost empty street in the city center.

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Max Factor was born Maksymilian Faktorowicz in Lodz, then part of Russia, and became the cosmetician for the Imperial Russian Grand Opera before leaving for America.

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Loic, who has built an online reputation as a cosmetician and has more than 100,000 followers on Facebook, and Rolland also face charges of public indecency and not carrying identification.

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Greene liked to quote Chekhov’s aphorism that a writer is “not a confectioner, not a cosmetician, not an entertainer.”

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