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
His jet-black hair hung in rich, wavy curls, which seemed to be the especial care of some renowned tonsorial artist, so gracefully and accurately were they arranged.
From Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue by Warren T. Ashton
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 W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow
SEVILLE, Barber of, a celebrated tonsorial artist who introduced the marcel wave and the Gillette razor into Spain.
From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Irwin Leslie Gordon
