friseur

See also: Friseur

English

Etymology

From French friseur, from friser (“to curl, frizz”).

Noun

friseur (plural friseurs)

1. (now rare) A hairdresser.
   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 35:

     As for poor Owen, could the bob-wig which he then wore have uncurled itself, and stood on end with horror, I am convinced the morning's labour of the friseur would have been undone, merely by the excess of his astonishment at this enormity.

Related terms

• frizz

Translations

a hairdresser

• Esperanto: frizisto (eo)
• Finnish: kampaaja (fi)
• French: friseur (fr) m
• German: Friseur (de) m
• Hungarian: fodrász (hu), frizőr (hu)
• Kazakh: шаштаразшы (şaştarazşy)
• Macedonian: фри́зер m (frízer)
• Polish: fryzjer (pl) m, fryzjerka (pl) f
• Russian: парикма́хер (ru) m (parikmáxer)
• Slovak: kaderník m
• Swedish: frisör (sv) c

Further reading

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “friseur”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “friseur”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• frisure, furries, surfier

French

Etymology

From friser +‎ -eur.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.zœʁ/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Homophone: freezer

Noun

friseur m (plural friseurs, feminine friseuse)

1. (dated) hairdresser

   Synonym: coiffeur

Related terms

• friser

Descendants

• → English: friseur
• → Danish: frisør
• → German: Friseur
• → Polish: fryzjer
• → Romanian: frizer
• → Serbo-Croatian: frizer
• → Swedish: frisör

Further reading

• “friseur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.