hairdressing

hairdresser | American Dictionary

hairdresser
noun[ C ]
us/ˈheərˌdres·ər/
a person whose job is cutting hair, esp. women's hair

Examples of hairdresser

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The logic of it, however, was not likely to comfort hairdressers, whose working lives became increasingly precarious.
By 1936, however, women accounted for over thirty-seven per cent of hairdressers nationally and an even higher proportion in the more fashion-conscious cities.
Its agents worked directly with the syndicates of hairdressers to effect, and in some respects to impose, agreements between employers and employees.
The woman blamed the hairdresser with the apprentices who was smiling all the time.
The best examples in this respect are probably the large proportions of artisans among photographers and hairdressers, both highly specialized trades dealing with individual customers.
Typical expenditures involved the employment of casual handymen and gardeners, cleaners, decorators or more frequent use of hairdressers.
A client noticed the hairdresser of the actress who had blue eyes.
The man noticed the hairdresser of the opera singers who was about to go home.
Frenchness, being stereotypically associated with up-market hairdressers, was important since the centrally located fashionable hairdresser would have profited from it.
No long bills to barbers and hairdressers for powder and perfumes was in his charges.
As a rule, the government, more interested in restraining inflation than in pleasing hairdressers, listened to the coiffeurs' demands and then promptly disregarded them.
Second, among hairdressers, 'specialists' and 'coiffeurs' were the highest-paid categories in a sharply sliding scale.
The 1936 census counted some 126,000 coiffeures, three times the population of hairdressers at the beginning of the century.
Table 2 presents the comparative wages of hairdressers from 1921 to 1942.
For most hairdressers this had been challenge enough before the war.
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