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
The pair offer a program that requires 1,500 hours training over 10 months to three years to get a barber’s license as well as 500-hour and 1,000-hour programs through which barbers can train to become instructors and a 500-hour program through which cosmetologists can get their barber’s license.
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Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Thompson said the victim lived on the street where the shooting happened and described her as a mother and cosmetologist who was well-loved.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
Should licensed manicurists be treated differently from licensed cosmetologists under California’s employment law?
—Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
Christina Williams began her career as a licensed cosmetologist, initially believing her purpose was to help women look beautiful.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025
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Mike Danahey, Chicago Tribune, 10 Apr. 2025
Thompson said the victim lived on the street where the shooting happened and described her as a mother and cosmetologist who was well-loved.
—Nathan Pilling, Kansas City Star, 4 Apr. 2025
Should licensed manicurists be treated differently from licensed cosmetologists under California’s employment law?
—Hanna Kang, Orange County Register, 11 Mar. 2025
Christina Williams began her career as a licensed cosmetologist, initially believing her purpose was to help women look beautiful.
—J.m. Banks, Kansas City Star, 4 Mar. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for cosmetologist
Noun
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Six-year-olds spend within approximately 17 categories, but by age 15, this expands to 185 categories, including services from beauticians and barbers to record stores and country clubs.—
Rupert Lee-Browne,
Forbes.com,
10 June 2025
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Working as a beautician, drifting between men, and moving through life without clear rhyme or reason, her character is abrasive, unexpected, and revelatory to encounter on screen.—
Blake Simons,
IndieWire,
17 May 2025
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 19 Jun. 2025.
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