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tonsor|ˈtɒnsə(r)|
[a. L. tonsor barber, agent-n. f. tondēre to shear, clip.]
1. A barber.
1656[see tonsorious]. 1721Bailey, Tonsor, a Barber. 1749Fielding Tom Jones viii. vi, ‘So, tonsor’, says Jones, ‘I find you have more trades than one’. 1866R. Chambers Ess. Ser. ii. 16 When we sit under the tonsor..we fall into chat.
†2. A clipper of coin. Obs.
1697Evelyn Numism. vii. 225 Not our Tonsors only, Clippers and False Monyers. |