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Recent Examples of coiffeur
If all that counts is inward essence, what the hell were those teams of makeup artists, coiffeurs, and cinematographers employed by the major studios, in the golden age, doing all day?
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Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2024
Toussaint, who was literate, socially adroit and a talented fiddler, was apprenticed as a coiffeur and was permitted to keep some of his earnings; Schuyler and her sister-in-law, Eliza Hamilton — the wife of Alexander Hamilton — were among his earliest clients.
—Elizabeth Stone, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The French may champion a makeup-free look, but their tousled tresses aren’t so effortless — French coiffeurs have mastered the art of achieving perfectly imperfect hair.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
The British coiffeur’s 35-year-plus career includes styling the locks of A-listers like Sarah Jessica Parker, Goldie Hawn, Sharon Stone, and Paris Hilton, among others.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
In one of the play’s delightful rhymes, the widow derides Arsinoë’s priggishness and terrible coiffeur (an updo with varnished-looking curls).
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
But, with ample time to kill, the girls have been interrupting her beauty sleep to play coiffeur.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2021
In France itinerant coiffeurs made up 8-10% of the market, says Pierre André, who runs Wecasa, an app which arranges home cuts.
—The Economist, 28 May 2020
Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2024
Toussaint, who was literate, socially adroit and a talented fiddler, was apprenticed as a coiffeur and was permitted to keep some of his earnings; Schuyler and her sister-in-law, Eliza Hamilton — the wife of Alexander Hamilton — were among his earliest clients.
—Elizabeth Stone, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2024
The French may champion a makeup-free look, but their tousled tresses aren’t so effortless — French coiffeurs have mastered the art of achieving perfectly imperfect hair.
—Lane Nieset, Travel + Leisure, 27 Nov. 2023
The British coiffeur’s 35-year-plus career includes styling the locks of A-listers like Sarah Jessica Parker, Goldie Hawn, Sharon Stone, and Paris Hilton, among others.
—Emma Reynolds, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2023
In one of the play’s delightful rhymes, the widow derides Arsinoë’s priggishness and terrible coiffeur (an updo with varnished-looking curls).
—Celia Wren, Washington Post, 4 May 2023
But, with ample time to kill, the girls have been interrupting her beauty sleep to play coiffeur.
—Bernhard Warner, Fortune, 26 Mar. 2021
In France itinerant coiffeurs made up 8-10% of the market, says Pierre André, who runs Wecasa, an app which arranges home cuts.
—The Economist, 28 May 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for coiffeur
Noun
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His mother, Helen Burns, was a beautician, and his father, Noah Robinson, wasa worker whose job entailed grading the quality of cotton.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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The organization added that Scotland is the worst European country for unqualified beauticians injecting customers with cosmetic treatments, reported BBC.—
Skyler Caruso,
PEOPLE,
31 Dec. 2025
Noun
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Domestic violence training for cosmetologists Licensed hairdressers, nail technicians, barbers and other cosmetologists in Maryland will now be required to complete a one-hour domestic violence awareness training to renew their professional licenses.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
1 Jan. 2026
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It was launched by none other than Mario Badescu himself, a chemist and cosmetologist from Romania who started offering facial services out of his Manhattan apartment (this is exactly where, as legend has it, Badescu first formulated the Drying Lotion).—
Stacia Datskovska,
Footwear News,
5 Nov. 2025
Noun
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That question could best be answered by the barrio’s fierce matriarchs, Abuela Claudia (Olga Merediz), who emigrated with her mother from Cuba in the 1940s, and Daniela (Daphne Rubin-Vega), the gregarious coiffeuse whose salon has been the epicenter for conversation and social activity for years.—
Washington Post,
Washington Post,
4 June 2021
Noun
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Police have arrested a 21-year-old man in the 2024 shooting death of a popular North Miami Beach barber, a development that came more than a year after the crime, following new information from a witness who said fear kept her silent for months.—
Abby Dodge,
CBS News,
14 Mar. 2026
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North Miami Beach police arrested a man in connection to the 2024 murder of a barber who was fatally shot while rollerblading.—
David Goodhue
March 13,
Miami Herald,
13 Mar. 2026
Noun
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Yanez is one of potentially thousands of hairdressers, barbers, electricians and HVAC professionals across Texas who are ineligible to obtain or renew professional licenses after the state agency added the requirement in late January.—
Emiliano Tahui Gómez,
Austin American Statesman,
15 Mar. 2026
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After bombs exploded near her home in the eastern Iranian city of Golestan, hairdresser Merve Pourkaz decided to leave.—
Sam McNeil,
Fortune,
14 Mar. 2026
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“Coiffeur.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/coiffeur. Accessed 19 Mar. 2026.
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