friseur

I had a gentleman to wait upon me, a French friseur to dress my hair of a morning; I knew the taste of chocolate as by intuition almost, and could distinguish between the right Spanish and the French before I had been a week in my new position; I had rings on all my fingers, watches in both my fobs, canes, trinkets, and snuffboxes of all sorts, and each outvying the other in elegance.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Let your man learn of the best friseur to do your hair well, for that is a very material part of your dress.

Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

If he visits her when she is dressed, and perceives the least impropriety in her coeffure, he insists upon adjusting it with his own hands: if he sees a curl, or even a single hair amiss, he produces his comb, his scissars, and pomatum, and sets it to rights with the dexterity of a professed friseur.

Travels through France and Italy 2004

Her hair was not disfigured by the art of the friseur, but fell in jetty ringlets on her neck, confined only by a circlet, richly set with diamonds.

Waverley 2004

Here the Royal speaker was herself interrupted by a cloud of powder which the unconscious _friseur_ flung over the edifice then erecting.

The Ladies A Shining Constellation of Wit and Beauty

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

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

He looked at the friseur with a painful feeling, hoping every moment that the tower of curls would be complete.

Chapter V. Book III 1917

She was teaching a Highland dance to a graceful cavalier in white silk breeches, flowered satin waistcoat, and most choicely powdered periwig, fresh from the friseur.

A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 William MacLeod Raine 1912

At six o'clock in the morning I am already done with my friseur, and at seven I am fully dressed.

Mozart The Man and the Artist as Revealed in his own Words Kerst, Friedrich 1905

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

Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire Edward Lucas White 1900