Definition of "cosmetician" [cosmetician]

• One whose occupation is manufacturing, selling, or applying cosmetics. (noun)

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• "Until I set out to learn the business, I didn’t even know that in Funeraleze, Callie’s position is called a cosmetician, not a cosmetologist."
• "They got a cosmetician there, too, and she can teach us all about makeup."
• "She worked as a lawyer, a newspaper reporter, and as a cosmetician when she moved to the United States in the early 1950s, her husband helping her with his chemistry background."