stylistn.

1795 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 18 522 He even delights in assisting the reader to trace his eternal allusions to their source; in pointing out..the stylist whose epithet he transplants, or the philosopher whose inference he impresses.

a1849 E. A. Poe Henry Cary in Wks. (1865) III. 68 A style that, as times go—in view of such stylists as Mr. Briggs for example—may be termed respectable.

1873 F. Hall Mod. Eng. 10 The latter [Addison] while notably distinguished, as a stylist, for ease,..combines with it the extreme of inexactness.

1882 M. Pattison Ess. I. 127 Cotton's version ‘orator’ here misrepresents the French ‘orateur,’ which means ‘stylist,’ not speaker.

1882 R. C. Jebb Life Bentley 208 By his Latin compositions..Scaliger is connected with the Italian age of Latin stylists.

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 5 She has evidently adopted for her model two great living stylists, Mr. Pater and Mr. J. A. Symonds.

1911 G. Macdonald Roman Wall Scotl. i. 15 Herodian..was too much of a stylist to live up to his own professions.

1897 K. S. Ranjitsinhji Jubilee Bk. Cricket iii. 131 A young player of much promise—essentially a stylist, with brilliant strokes all round the wicket when set.

1898 K. S. Ranjitsinhji With Stoddart's Team (ed. 3) i. 34 Hayward is essentially a stylist.

1969 Listener 3 Apr. 470/3 He's also perhaps the most original clarinet stylist in the British Isles.

1981 Best of Karate '81 Spring 35/2 (caption) A Japanese stylist from Indiana, he has won virtually every major title available.

1928 Daily Express 18 July 12 The post of ‘stylist’ has been created during the last year in some of the better Canadian and American stores. The duties consist of linking departments,..informing the bag department of the trend of fashion in the shoe section, and the glove department what is happening in the costume department.

1928 Daily Express 24 Sept. 7 Harrods Fashion Buyers and Stylists.

1956 Stanford Law Rev. 8 628 The General Motors stylist Harley Earl cannot be split into five pieces.

1958 Spectator 20 June 817/3 The quality and style of ‘St. Michael’ garments are the product of close collaboration between the Buying Executives, Stylists and Technologists.

1978 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 126 538/1 Mr. Nader caused a greater fundamental change to the appearance of cars than did a hundred stylists or engineers.

1937 R. Stout Crime on her Hands (1939) ii. 23 I could have got a job as a stylist, or..started a hat shop.

1962 Times 3 Feb. 9/4 Where are the barbers or even the hairdressers now? They have come stylists to a man or woman.

1968 D. Gray Died in Red ix. 52 She was then put under a drier. Twenty minutes or so later she was again taken to the stylist (or crimper as they called themselves).

1979 West Lancs. Evening Gaz. 10 Nov. 11 (advt.) Wanted—all-round Stylist—male/female.