stylist

/ˈstaɪlɪst/

Etymology

From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.

noun

  1. A designer.
  2. A hairdresser.
  3. A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.“If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?”
  4. An artist who has a particular distinctive style.“A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.”