hairdressing

[hair-dres-ing]

noun

1. the act or process of cutting, combing out, doing up, or styling hair.

2. the vocation or occupation of a hairdresser.

3. a style of arranging the hair; hairdo; coiffure.

4. a preparation, as tonic, oil, pomade, or the like, applied to the hair for increased manageability.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hairdressing¹

First recorded in 1765–75; hair + dressing

Example Sentences

Mrs Arter, a hairdressing tutor from Welling, first met Mr Arter when he was the officer in charge of investigating a complaint she had made to the Met of domestic abuse.

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The government has told a contractor to remove jobs from a recruitment website, after it emerged there were plans to hire floristry and hairdressing tutors for detainees at an immigration removal centre near Heathrow airport.

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Summer, 16, from Ebbw Vale left her hairdressing course at college but hopes to go back next term after a period on the Jobs Growth Wales+ programme.

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Miller was the first Scottish hairdresser to receive an OBE for services to hairdressing, presented by Her Majesty the Queen in 2012.

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When I dropped in on the Acorn Day Nursery in Somerton, Somerset, it was hairdressing time.

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Related Words

• haircut 
• hairstyle