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Definition of Haircutters
1. haircutter [n] - See also: haircutter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haircutters
Literary usage of Haircutters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute by Royal Empire Society, London (1876)
"But it is no use sending out as missionaries half-bred men, or men who have been
disappointed as haircutters, or one who has been seventeen years a cobbler, ..."
2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1872)
"The only chatterboxes a stranger comes across are the darkey haircutters and
shavers, who, •with your hair or nose between their fingers, pour out a stream ..."
3. The English in the West Indies; Or, The Bow of Ulysses by James Anthony Froude (1888)
"... or were under the hands of barbers or haircutters in an airy open saloon
devoted to these uses. When I retreated upstairs to collect myself, ..."
4. The British Essayists edited by Alexander Chalmers (1808)
"... which we could wish to see put in execution ; such as—A bill for prohibiting
the importation of French milliners, haircutters, and mantua-makers—:A bill ..."
5. The Metropolitan (1834)
"... and the whole business of conveying his themes and impositions backwards and
forwards from the haircutters, was committed into my hands. ..."
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