Examples from literature

• Barbers in those days of old were called barber-surgeons, for the reason that they bled people, as well as shaved them or cut their hair. 
• If the wearing of the beard ever became universal, the world, and especially the Spanish and Italian world, would sadly miss the barber and the barber's shop. 
• Moreover, beardless, he would need the service of a barber every day.