as in beautician
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a person whose job is to give beauty treatments to women by washing and cutting hair, applying makeup, etc.
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Recent Examples of cosmetologist
She’s complemented well by a large, high-energy cast, among the standouts Anthea Neri-Best as her comic cosmetologist, Nicholas McDonough as a smarmy careerist and Edward Staudenmayer as the kind of condescending professor that most former college students may recognize.
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Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 11 June 2025
Consequently, a cosmetologist can now paint someone’s nails as an independent contractor while a manicurist cannot.
—Tri Ta, Oc Register, 13 June 2025
More than half the states require a cosmetologist to have 1,500 hours of schooling.
—Andrew Wimer, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Budget cuts Parents who want to save some money by cutting their kids’ hair can put away the bowls: The Campbell Express Library is hosting a hairstylist and licensed cosmetologist with over 20 years of experience who will demonstrate how anyone can cut hair.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 22 June 2025
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Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 11 June 2025
Consequently, a cosmetologist can now paint someone’s nails as an independent contractor while a manicurist cannot.
—Tri Ta, Oc Register, 13 June 2025
More than half the states require a cosmetologist to have 1,500 hours of schooling.
—Andrew Wimer, Forbes.com, 12 June 2025
Budget cuts Parents who want to save some money by cutting their kids’ hair can put away the bowls: The Campbell Express Library is hosting a hairstylist and licensed cosmetologist with over 20 years of experience who will demonstrate how anyone can cut hair.
—Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 22 June 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmetologist
Noun
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Wellbeing involves services like hairdressers and beauticians, whilst household goods and services include white goods and kitchen appliances.—
Gus Alexiou,
Forbes.com,
31 July 2025
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Six-year-olds spend within approximately 17 categories, but by age 15, this expands to 185 categories, including services from beauticians and barbers to record stores and country clubs.—
Rupert Lee-Browne,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
Noun
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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?—
Anthony Lane,
The New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2024
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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
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