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barber
1[ bahr-ber ]
noun
- a person whose occupation it is to cut and dress the hair of customers, especially men, and to shave or trim the beard.
verb (used with object)
- to trim or dress the hair or beard of.
Barber
2[ bahr-ber ]
noun
- Samuel, 1910–81, U.S. composer.
barber
1/ ˈbɑːbə /
noun
- a person whose business is cutting men's hair and shaving or trimming beards
verb
- to cut the hair of
- to shave or trim the beard of
Barber
2/ ˈbɑːbə /
noun
- BarberSamuel19101981MUSMUSIC: composer Samuel . 1910–81, US composer: his works include an Adagio for Strings , adapted from the second movement of his string quartet No. 1 (1936) and the opera Vanessa (1958)
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Other Words From
- un·barbered adjective
- well-barbered adjective
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Word History and Origins
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Origin of barber1
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Example Sentences
Business owners swept up glass in front of their barber shop.
That is why Malloy is campaigning on a lonely stretch of barber shops and boxing gyms in New Haven a week before the election.
Gone are the days of corner suites, an on-staff barber, and diamond medallions given to employees.
“If you say a bad word about someone here, it gets around fast,” said Jack West, the barber.
He looked, that dreadful afternoon, as if he had just come from his barber, tailor and haberdasher.
For about thirty feet from the ground this was painted in coloured stripes very much like a barber's pole.
A barber having a dispute with a parish clerk on a point of grammar, the latter said it was a downright barbarism, indeed.
Even the cribbage game under the barber shop was suspended, and the cribbage game was an institution.
They both found me under the barber's hand; but I had a bottle of good sack in the house, and so made them very welcome.
At night before I went to bed the barber came to trim me and wash me, and so to bed, in order to my being clean to-morrow.
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