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coiffeur

[kwa-fœr] / kwaˈfœr /


NOUN
hairdresser
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NOUN
stylist
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At a barber shop called Peluqueria 5 Star Fades Estrellas on 26th, a coiffeur named Juan Garcia sat in a chair near the store entrance.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 16, 2025

Alcaraz is also the sort of young person who assigns a critical pre tournament haircut not to a $300 Manhattan coiffeur, but to…his brother.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2025

The 80-plus-year-old coiffeur, decked out in marine attire complete with sailor stripes and the “Bachi” bonnet worn by the French marines, ushers us inside and says, “I’ve been here for 57 years.”

From Washington Post ● Jul. 20, 2017

“What do you write about?” the coiffeur asked.

From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2016

Madame Dépine rather dreaded the coiffeur, whom intercourse with jocose students had made severe.

From The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes by Israel Zangwill

In both portraits, the Baroque coiffeurs and draperies are stripped away.

From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2010

Antoine Cierplikowski is the most famed of all Parisian coiffeurs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Berlin coiffeurs are attempting to launch the 'Hindenburg bob,' an exaggerated 'shingle,' imitative of my short bristling pompadour.

From Time Magazine Archive

The coiffeurs feared diminishing tips, the owners feared vanishing profits.

From Time Magazine Archive

They are elaborately clipped and powdered and beribboned by special "coiffeurs."

From Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge by Stephen Leacock




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