friseur

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Or shall we constitute him friseur to Tisiphone, and make him curl up her locks with his satires and libels?

From Dialogues of the Dead by Morley, Henry

I patronized every complexion-specialist, friseur, perukier, manicurist and fashionable barber in that part of the world.

From Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire by White, Edward Lucas

She conversed upon various public and general topics till the friseur was dismissed, and then I was honoured with an audience, quite alone, for a full hour and a half.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

There is Dick Wildfire being attired, with the aid of the friseur and the tailor, and under the sneering inspection of Sam Sharp, his Yorkshire valet, according to the latest Parisian fashions.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 by Various

The friseur was engaged in this critical operation, and whole ranks of ladies stood round, one of them reading aloud one of Plutarch's Lives.

From Stray Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary