friseur
See also: Friseur
English edit
Etymology edit
From French friseur, from friser (“to curl, frizz”).
Noun edit
friseur (plural friseurs)
- (now rare) A hairdresser.
- 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 35:
- As for poor Owen, could the bob-wig which he then wore have uncurled itself, and stood on end with horror, I am convinced the morning's labour of the friseur would have been undone, merely by the excess of his astonishment at this enormity.
Related terms edit
Translations edit
a hairdresser
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Further reading edit
- “friseur”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “friseur”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Anagrams edit
French edit
Etymology edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
friseur m (plural friseurs, feminine friseuse)
- (dated) hairdresser
- Synonym: coiffeur
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Descendants edit
- → English: friseur
- → Danish: frisør
- → German: Friseur
- → Polish: fryzjer
- → Romanian: frizer
- → Serbo-Croatian: frizer
Further reading edit
- “friseur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.