hairdressing

Etymology

From hair + dressing.

hairdressing means the washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 79 out of 100.

noun

The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.“There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].”