hairdressing

English

Etymology

From hair +‎ dressing.

Noun

hairdressing (countable and uncountable, plural hairdressings)

1. The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

Derived terms

• hairdressing salon

Related terms

• hairdress
• hairdresser

Translations

the art or trade of a hairdresser

• Hungarian: fodrászat (hu)
• Vietnamese: nghề làm tóc

Verb

hairdressing

1. present participle and gerund of hairdress

Anagrams

• sherardising