Definition of "shampooing" [shampooing]

• Present participle of shampoo. (verb)

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• "By the Turks, the term shampooing is applied, now borrowed by our barbers."
• "Derived from the Hindi word chāmpo, a verbal form meaning “to knead” or “to press” as well as “the kneading” or “the pressing,” the English word shampooing described what struck seventeenth-and eighteenth-century Western observers as exotic bodily manipulations performed in the East."
• "French thinkers are systematic, and their approach to shampooing is no exception."