hairdress
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]hairdress (countable and uncountable, plural hairdresses)
- (countable) A hairstyle.
- 1938, Laurene Hempstead, Look Your Best: A Guide to Feminine Style and Beauty, page 13:
- Just as the close, tight hairdress emphasizes and enlarges the face, so the large, loose arrangement that creates a large frame for the face makes it seem smaller by contrast .
- 1943, Yamanaka & Company, Collection of Chinese and other Far Eastern art:
- Statuette, fashioned from grayish black terracotta, depicting Princess holding flower jar; short shoulder jacket extending over free flowing robe, exposing upturned sandals; chignon hairdress; traces of red and white pigments with earthy incrustations.
- 1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:
- For the port, the voice, the smell, the hairdress, were seldom the same, from one day to the next, […]
- 1999, Martin Klingbeil, Martin G Klingbeil, Yahweh Fighting from Heaven:
- It is wearing an Egyptian hairdress, but no crown is distinguishable.
- 2016, Clara Hallard Fawcett, Dolls - A Guide for Collectors:
- One way to judge is to compare the hairdress of the doll under discussion with pictures of the lady at about the time the doll was made.
- (uncountable) The process or act of styling hair.
- 1938, Robert W. Masters, Lillian Decker Masters, The Curtain Rises, Plays to Produce, page 281:
- The play is laid in the period when English society paid a great deal of attention to hairdress.
- 1951, Adelaide Laura Van Duzer, Benjamin Richard Andrews, The Girl's Daily Life, page 315:
- In hairdress, as in clothes, do not be a slave to fashion.
- 1966, An Introduction to American Archaeology: South America, page 266:
- Considerable attention has been given to hairdress in these, with long "page-boy" coiffures shown in modeling and scoring.
Verb
[edit]hairdress (third-person singular simple present hairdresses, present participle hairdressing, simple past and past participle hairdressed)
- To dress or style hair.
- 1971, Gwendolyn Brooks, Jump bad: a new Chicago anthology, page 71:
- "Monsieur," Francina told Mrs. Sill with the utmost tact, "is not licensed to hairdress or manicure pets. His professional aides are limited to slightly higher mammals — er — people. I am terribly sorry, madam."
- 1993, United States, United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, Fiscal, Economic, and Social Crises Confronting American Cities, page 296:
- I can tell you that in three cities in New Mexico there were enough hairdressers trained to hairdress in 16 States the size of New Mexico.
- 2016, Rebecca De Havalland, His Name Is Rebecca:
- I worked any hours I could at other things to reduce the number of hours I had to hairdress.