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
In later years our barber at Wakefield was somewhat of a dandy, and would, perhaps, have preferred being called a tonsorial artist.
From At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History by Andrews, William
On my return I happened to stop in front of the barber shop, when the tonsorial artist asked how I'd trade my horse for the shop.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)
Several of us had gone under the transforming hands of this tonsorial artist, when Bob McIntosh got his turn.
From From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw by Dame, William Meade
