head-dressern.
/ˈhɛdˌdrɛsə/, U.S. /ˈhɛdˌdrɛsər/ Now historical and rare.
A person who dresses hair or provides (decorative) attire for the head; a hairdresser, milliner, etc.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > making headgear > [noun] > one who
tire-maker1611
head-dresser1697
the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the hair > barbers and hairdressers > [noun]
barberc1330
cutterc1425
clipperc1440
raster cloth1440
poller1578
trimmer1583
dressera1596
shavester1620
razor-chirurgeon1624
suds-monger1638
tonsor1656
hair-man1689
head-dresser1697
friseur1750
hairdresser1771
scraper1791
depilator1836
coiffeur1847
Figaro1864
strap1864
tonsorialist1869
trichotomist1875
nai1883
hair-stylist1935
stylist1937
styler1960
crimper1966
Sweeney1966
scissorsmith2002
1697 P. Hollingworth tr. C. F. Franckenstein Hist. Intrigues & Gallantries Queen of Sweden 185 Her Majesty had sent for one Champagne a French Head-dresser [Fr. coiffeur], out of France.
1714 tr. Molière School for Women iv. v, in Wks. II. 139 Banish from it all Ribbon-sellers, Tire-Women, Head-Dressers.
1727 D. Defoe Compl. Eng. Tradesman II. ii. v. 166 Now we see..the Millenary Trade separated into innumerable little Commode Shops, Head Dressers and such like People.
1859 A. Trollope Bertrams ix. 81 No stray jagged ends would show themselves if by chance she removed her bonnet, nor did it even look as though it..required to be afresh puffed out by some head-dresser's mechanism.
1902 Photo-miniature Sept. 258 The photographer..had her go to a head-dresser to have her hair arranged like the model.
1927 Daily Tel. 24 May 17/3 The ‘head-dressers'’ shops are nests of decoy birds.
2007 C. Nicholl Lodger xv. 156 We have glimpses elsewhere of specialist female head-dressers involved in shows put on at court.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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