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a person whose business is cutting, curling, colouring and arranging hair, esp that of women
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a hairdresser's establishment
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Hairdresser Fariba Aghai, 44, was delighted to see a woman take up the baton at the orchestra, lamenting that women singers still can't perform at concerts or publish their own songs.
From Barron's • Nov. 15, 2025
Hairdresser Anna Alexandrova, a 47-year-old mother of two children, was first arrested in November 2023 for eight posts she shared via two anonymous accounts on Russian social network VKontakte.
From BBC • Apr. 15, 2025
Hairdresser Gabriel Cardoso da Silva, 28, is one of the main organizers of the improvised facilities.
From Seattle Times • May 10, 2024
Hairdresser Georgie McIntosh and her music tutor husband David John moved to Ullapool from Edinburgh in 2017 with their young sons Archie and Isaac.
From BBC • Mar. 21, 2023
He was called "the Paris Church-warden and the Queen's Hairdresser," for he passed from her toilette to the decoration of the walls of churches with illuminations cut out of old service-books.
From History of France by Green, J.R.
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