barber
/ˈbɑɹ.bɚ/ noun A2- A person whose profession is cutting the hair and beards of usually male customers.
- A barber surgeon, a foot soldier specializing in treating battlefield injuries.
- A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, especially one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; so named from the cutting ice spicules.
Plural barbers
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As he had twenty times touched at Leghorn, he remembered a barber in St.
The barber gazed in amazement at this man with the long, thick and black hair and beard, which gave his head the appearance of one of Titian’s portraits.
At this period it was not the fashion to wear so large a beard and hair so long; now a barber would only be surprised if a man gifted with such advantages should consent voluntarily to deprive himself of them.
The Leghorn barber said nothing and went to work.
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