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
After decades of work as a cosmetologist, hunched over clients’ feet and inhaling acetone and other nail care solvents, Ferraro has suffered from illnesses that required multiple surgeries and sent her into early retirement.
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Shayna Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2025
It was launched by none other than Mario Badescu himself, a chemist and cosmetologist from Romania who started offering facial services out of his Manhattan apartment (this is exactly where, as legend has it, Badescu first formulated the Drying Lotion).
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
Haltom, a licensed cosmetologist, had done hair and makeup for a local mortuary, which happened to be ready to offload a viewing casket.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Among the nearly 70 occupations that qualify are restaurant servers, gig workers, barbers, cosmetologists and golf caddies.
—Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
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Shayna Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle, 28 Dec. 2025
It was launched by none other than Mario Badescu himself, a chemist and cosmetologist from Romania who started offering facial services out of his Manhattan apartment (this is exactly where, as legend has it, Badescu first formulated the Drying Lotion).
—Stacia Datskovska, Footwear News, 5 Nov. 2025
Haltom, a licensed cosmetologist, had done hair and makeup for a local mortuary, which happened to be ready to offload a viewing casket.
—Elizabeth Hernandez, Denver Post, 16 Oct. 2025
Among the nearly 70 occupations that qualify are restaurant servers, gig workers, barbers, cosmetologists and golf caddies.
—Levi Sumagaysay, Mercury News, 13 Oct. 2025
See All Example Sentences for cosmetologist
Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmetologist
Noun
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Throughout the summer, celebrity beautician Iván Pol acts as resident facialist.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
25 Mar. 2026
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His mother, Helen Burns, was a beautician, and his father, Noah Robinson, wasa worker whose job entailed grading the quality of cotton.—
Darcel Rockett,
Chicago Tribune,
2 Mar. 2026
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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“Cosmetologist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/cosmetologist. Accessed 7 Apr. 2026.
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