hair dresser

See also: hair-dresser and hairdresser

English

Noun

hair dresser (plural hair dressers)

1. Obsolete form of hairdresser.
   • 1797, J[ohn] Penn, Critical and Poetical Works, London: […] Elmsly, […], pages 123–124:

     Quære, might not hair dressers friz and turn, though not shave, classically, according to the dignifying principles of the sculptor?

   • [c. 1800], J. Bisset, Dandyism Displayed, or The Follies of the Ton; […], London: […] [John] Duncombe, […], →OCLC, page 22:

     The Hair Dressers. An hair dresser is a little busy animal always on the fidget, wagging his tail here, there, and every where, where he has no business, somewhat like a wren or a water-wagtail.

   • 1801, C[harles] Dibdin, Observations on a Tour through Almost the Whole of England, and a Considerable Part of Scotland, in a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Large Number of Intelligent and Respectable Friends, volume I, London: […] G. Goulding, […], page 146:

     Nay, the hair dresser at Tavistock, and hair dressers are oracles that deserve more attention than some are willing to allow, said that as to such places as Bristol, Liverpool, Exeter, and London, he had no curiosity about them, but that if he could have the happiness of seeing Truro, he should die contented. I must say, I was not so much struck as the hair dresser and the other admirers of this place.