Business owners swept up glass in front of their barber shop.
Raging Protesters Set Ferguson on Fire|Justin Glawe|November 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election.
Dan Malloy Is Progressives’ Dream Governor. So Why Isn’t He Winning?|David Freedlander|October 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“If you say a bad word about someone here, it gets around fast,” said Jack West, the barber.
Nunn-Perdue: The Devil Went Down to Perry, Georgia|Patricia Murphy|October 10, 2014|DAILY BEAST
He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.
The Stacks: H.L. Mencken on the 1904 Baltimore Fire|H.L. Mencken|October 4, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Admirable stuff, but also on his agenda could be just a fleeting visit to a barber.
Leo, the Beard Has to Go: When a Man’s Facial Hair Reaches Crisis Point|Tim Teeman|September 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
I pinned a clean towel round my neck, barber fashion, and pulling the pins out of my hair, shook it down over my shoulders.
The Motor Maid|Alice Muriel Williamson and Charles Norris Williamson
The witnesses on the side of the petition were a butcher woman, a barber's 'prentice, and two or three other inferior people.
Old and New London|Walter Thornbury
The barber knit his brows and glanced angrily at the young man.
The Barber of Paris|Charles Paul de Kock
The house where Barber was lodging stood high up on the side of a hill.
The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story|Various
In 1525 he was junior of the three wardens of the Barber Surgeons Company.
The Story of London|Henry B. Wheatley
British Dictionary definitions for barber (1 of 2)
barber
/ (ˈbɑːbə) /
noun
a person whose business is cutting men's hair and shaving or trimming beards
verb(tr)
to cut the hair of
to shave or trim the beard of
Word Origin for barber
C13: from Old French barbeor, from barbe beard, from Latin barba
British Dictionary definitions for barber (2 of 2)
Barber
/ (ˈbɑːbə) /
noun
Samuel . 1910–81, US composer: his works include an Adagio for Strings, adapted from the second movement of his string quartet No. 1 (1936) and the opera Vanessa (1958)