tonsorial artist
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After a month with no income, and a few months after his second expensive illness in two years, the folksy, wisecracking tonsorial artist needed to get back on the job.
From Washington Times • May 31, 2017
Said one: "Those of us who rely entirely on shaves and haircuts for existence must be ranked with the village tonsorial artist who makes a sideline of pulling teeth."
From Time Magazine Archive
The "profile" was taken when I was sadly in need of the application of the scissors of the tonsorial artist.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Newnes, George
As a source of valuable information, it beats the Encyclopedia Brittanica in an easy hand gallop; the tonsorial artist is not in its class and even the 'Intelligence Office,' pales into innocuous desuetude beside it.
From Said the Observer by Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)
The Japanese tonsorial artist shaves without the aid of soap, merely wetting the face by dipping his fingers in a bowl of warm water.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas
