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单词 tonsorial
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Definition of tonsorial in English:

tonsorial

adjective tɒnˈsɔːrɪəltɑnˈsɔriəl
humorous, formal
  • Relating to hairdressing.

    she'd had her customary go at me over tonsorial neglect
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Her eleven-thirty was poised, with scissors and hair-dryer at the ready to perform yet another act of tonsorial topiary on her pretty little head.
    • But Sam's tonsorial issues are the least of his problems.
    • Forgive the tonsorial obsession, for which there are two reasons.
    • Those who know me will know I don't pay much attention to matters tonsorial.
    • More ugly facial hair comes in the form of a thin vertical line of tonsorial bush dividing the chin area under the bottom lip into two equal parts.
    • This was the commercial that had an old barber offer his young customer a unique solution to get the tonsorial look he desires.
    • His tonsorial extravaganza left him with something approaching 5 o'clock stubble on his scalp!
    • Or maybe it's just the natural camaraderie of the tonsorial parlor.
    • He was one of the town's two tonsorial artists.
    • A few of the bolder women stroke the hair of the blondes in our group - the people who live along the Siang are South-East Asian in appearance, and lack variety on the tonsorial front.
    • I envy the youth of today, who never had to live through an era of such tonsorial, not to say sartorial, horrors.
    • I conducted extensive detailed research into the tonsorial tendencies at the beginning of the previous century.

Derivatives

  • tonsorially

  • adverb
    humorous, formal
    • as submodifier a tonsorially flamboyant gangster
      Example sentencesExamples
      • If your friends are tonsorially challenged, visit a barber or salon on Saturdays (the busiest day) and find out which stylist is most difficult to get an appointment with.
      • Her beautician is kind of a genius - once, when I was in Virginia with bangs that were too long, Charlene gave me a quick trim that utterly transformed my whole head - and Sarah has been in the zone, tonsorially speaking, for a couple of years now.
      • The fact that he is British and shaven headed may be of some comfort to, say, the tonsorially elegant Antipodean, but frankly, does it matter?
      • During my more tonsorially experimental phases, I noted with interest that the levels of attention I would get from in-store security staff depended on the colour of my hair.
      • I was just wondering why women should think that bald men were more intelligent than those of us not tonsorially challenged.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Latin tonsorius (from tonsor 'barber', from tondere 'shear, clip') + -al.

Rhymes

accessorial, accusatorial, advertorial, ambassadorial, arboreal, armorial, auditorial, authorial, boreal, censorial, combinatorial, consistorial, conspiratorial, corporeal, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, executorial, gladiatorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, imperatorial, janitorial, lavatorial, manorial, marmoreal, memorial, monitorial, natatorial, oratorial, oriel, pictorial, piscatorial, prefectorial, professorial, proprietorial, rectorial, reportorial, sartorial, scriptorial, sectorial, senatorial, territorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial, visitorial
 
 

Definition of tonsorial in US English:

tonsorial

adjectivetɑnˈsɔriəltänˈsôrēəl
formal, humorous
  • Relating to hairdressing.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Forgive the tonsorial obsession, for which there are two reasons.
    • Those who know me will know I don't pay much attention to matters tonsorial.
    • Or maybe it's just the natural camaraderie of the tonsorial parlor.
    • His tonsorial extravaganza left him with something approaching 5 o'clock stubble on his scalp!
    • A few of the bolder women stroke the hair of the blondes in our group - the people who live along the Siang are South-East Asian in appearance, and lack variety on the tonsorial front.
    • I conducted extensive detailed research into the tonsorial tendencies at the beginning of the previous century.
    • Her eleven-thirty was poised, with scissors and hair-dryer at the ready to perform yet another act of tonsorial topiary on her pretty little head.
    • But Sam's tonsorial issues are the least of his problems.
    • I envy the youth of today, who never had to live through an era of such tonsorial, not to say sartorial, horrors.
    • He was one of the town's two tonsorial artists.
    • More ugly facial hair comes in the form of a thin vertical line of tonsorial bush dividing the chin area under the bottom lip into two equal parts.
    • This was the commercial that had an old barber offer his young customer a unique solution to get the tonsorial look he desires.

Origin

Early 19th century: from Latin tonsorius (from tonsor ‘barber’, from tondere ‘shear, clip’) + -al.

 
 
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