tonsorial
/tɒnˈsɔːrɪəl
/adjective formal or humorous
Relating to hairdressing: she’d had her customary go at me over tonsorial neglect...
- I envy the youth of today, who never had to live through an era of such tonsorial, not to say sartorial, horrors.
- Those who know me will know I don't pay much attention to matters tonsorial.
- A few of the bolder women stroke the hair of the blondes in our group - the people who live along the Siang are South-East Asian in appearance, and lack variety on the tonsorial front.
Derivatives
tonsorially
[as submodifier]: a tonsorially flamboyant gangster...
- During my more tonsorially experimental phases, I noted with interest that the levels of attention I would get from in-store security staff depended on the colour of my hair.
- The fact that he is British and shaven headed may be of some comfort to, say, the tonsorially elegant Antipodean, but frankly, does it matter?
- I was just wondering why women should think that bald men were more intelligent than those of us not tonsorially challenged.
Origin
Early 19th century: from Latin tonsorius (from tonsor 'barber', from tondere 'shear, clip') + -al.
Rhymes
- nerve current
- nerved
- nerve deafness
- nerve doctor
- nerve end
- nerve ending
- nerve excitation
- nerve fibre
- nerve force
- nerve gas
- nerve glue
- nerve growth factor
- nerve impulse
- nerve-knot
- nerveless
- nervelessly
- nervelessness
- nervelet
- nerve net
- nerve path
- nerve pathway
- nerve patient
- nerve physiologist
- nerve physiology
- nerve poison