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Definition of "coiffeur" []

  • A man who is a hairdresser. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "coiffeur" in a sentence
  • "About nine o'clock A.M., an important functionary, the "coiffeur," arrived."
  • "Mademoiselle Zélie St. Pierre, on this particular Thursday, even assumed a "robe de soie," deemed in economical Labassecour an article of hazardous splendour and luxury; nay, it was remarked that she sent for a "coiffeur" to dress her hair that morning; there were pupils acute enough to discover that she had bedewed her handkerchief and her hands with a new and fashionable perfume."
  • "Bear Stearns, too, had an in-house stylist note to self: investment bank coiffeur may not be the most stable gig, and this year, Wall Street barber Salvatore Anazalone is working out of a temporary shop inside Goldman Sachs's headquarters while the hotel housing his permanent shop undergoes renovations."