American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - n. A man who is a hairdresser. Century Dictionary and
Cyclopedia - n. A hair-dresser. - n. A male hairdresser. GNU
Webster's 1913 - n. A hairdresser. - n. a man hairdresser -
Borrowing from French, from coiffer, from Old French coife, from
Late Latin cofia. (Wiktionary) - French, from coiffer, to coif,
from Old French coife, coif; see coif. (American Heritage®
Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition) “About nine
o'clock A.M., an important functionary, the "coiffeur,"
arrived.” “Mademoiselle Zélie St. Pierre, on this particular
Thursday, even assumed a "robe de soie," deemed in economical
Labassecour an article of hazardous splendour and luxury; nay,
it was remarked that she sent for a "coiffeur" to dress her hair
that morning; there were pupils acute enough to discover that
she had bedewed her handkerchief and her hands with a new and
fashionable perfume.” “Bear Stearns, too, had an in-house
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