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ˈhairdressing
The action, process, or occupation of cutting and arranging the hair; the business of a hairdresser. Also, a dressing (see dressing vbl. n. 4) for the hair.
1771Smollett Humph. Cl. (1815) 184 He..values himself chiefly upon his skill and dexterity in hair-dressing. 1782Jas. Stewart (title) Plocacosmos: or the whole Art of Hair-Dressing. 1872Yeats Techn. Hist. Comm. 299 It is in the Modern Period..that the handicrafts auxiliary to hairdressing have been developed. 1907Yesterday's Shopping (1969) 532/1 Paraffin Hair Stimulant... As a hair dressing it is unrivalled. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 71/1 Hair-dressing, a liquid preparation of a creamy consistency used to anoint the hair of the head to improve its condition, impart a sheen, facilitate its dressing or hold it in position.
attrib.1777Johnson Let. to Boswell 27 Dec., Mrs. Thrale ran a great black hair-dressing pin into her eye. 1856W. Ferguson Amer. by River & Rail 67, I..resigned myself into the hands of one of the assistants in ‘Phalon's Hair-dressing Saloon’. 1876J. S. Ingram Centenn. Exposition 701 It contained..ladies' hair⁓dressing rooms. 1892York Co. Hist. Rev. 60 William Schreiber's Fashionable Shaving and Hair-Dressing Parlors. 1908Westm. Gaz. 29 Feb. 3/2 The hair-dressing sketch shows the Greek silhouette..inspired by Greek ideas. 1909in A. Adburgham Shops & Shopping (1964) xxiii. 273 (heading) Ladies Hairdressing Courts. 1966J. S. Cox Illustr. Dict. Hairdressing 71/1 Hair⁓dressing academy, in the 18th cent. in Paris these academies were described as follows: ‘The academy for teaching the art of female hair-dressing’. |