friseur
Americannoun
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friseurs
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of friseur
C18: literally: one who curls (hair); see frisette
Example Sentences
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The friseur was engaged in this critical operation, and whole ranks of ladies stood round, one of them reading aloud one of Plutarch's Lives.
From Stray Pearls by Charlotte Mary Yonge
Here he kept for himself a shop-boy, a man-cook, a friseur, a barber, and a reader of morning papers.
From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul
Happy the friseur who in Delia's hair, With licensed fingers uncontrolled may rove; And happy in his death the dancing bear, Who died to make pomatum for my love.
From History of English Humour, Vol. 2 by Alfred Guy Kingan L'Estrange
The Widow Capet needs no milliner now; she needs no friseur now for her toilette.
From Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon by L. (Luise) Mühlbach
But, oh, heavens! is not a genial friseur, according to the principles of his character and profession, a privileged fool and coxcomb?
From The Devil's Elixir Vol. II (of 2) by E. T. A. (Ernst Theodor Amadeus) Hoffmann
Indeed, friseurs were the rule in France, and she was not unused to male attendants at the toilette, so that she was not shocked at being left to his care.
From A Modern Telemachus by Charlotte Mary Yonge
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