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Definition of Hairdressing

1. Noun. A toiletry for the hair.

2. Noun. Care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair.

Definition of Hairdressing

1. Noun. The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Hairdressing

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hairdressing

haircaps haircare haircloth haircloths haircurling haircut haircuts haircutter haircutters haircutting

haircuttings hairdo hairdos hairdresser hairdressers hairdressing (current term) hairdressings hairdryer hairdryers haire

haired hairedness hairen haires hairgrip hairgrips hairier hairiest hairily hairiness

Literary usage of Hairdressing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Reminiscences and Recollections of Captain Gronow: Being Anecdotes of by Rees Howell Gronow, Joseph Grego (1892)
"hairdressing FIFTY YEARS SINCE, AND VAILS TO SERVANTS.—Nobody in the present day can conceive the inconvenience of our military costume when I first entered ..."

2. A Run Through the United States, During the Autumn of 1840 by Archibald Montgomery Maxwell (1841)
"... Scott — Dandy Bar-keeper — Concert at Dr. Wainwright's — Clerical hairdressing — Tracing of Descents from the Old Country — Wealth Second to Lineage. ..."

3. Notes by a Naturalist: An Account of Observations Made During the Voyage of by Henry Nottidge Moseley (1892)
"Native hairdressing. Kaava Drinking. Buying Stone Adzes. Excursion to Mbau Island. Structure of the Island. Na vatani tawaki. Relics of Cannibalism. ..."

4. What Our Daughters Can Do for Themselves: A Handbook of Women's Employments by J. E. Davidson (1894)
"hairdressing AMONG the occupations open to women which have rapidly come into favour we may count that of hair- dressing. Fifteen years ago Mr. Douglas ..."

5. The Picturesque Antiquities of Spain: Described in a Series of Letters, with by Nathaniel Armstrong Wells (1846)
"hairdressing. THE GIRALDA. CASA DE PILATOS. MONASTERIES. ITALICA. Seville. MENDICITY is one of the Curiosities—and not the least picturesque one —of this ..."

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