Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of or relating to barbering or a barber.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a barber or his functions.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to a barber, or shaving.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Pertaining to
barbers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or relating to barbers and barbering
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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a dandy, and would, perhaps, have preferred being called a tonsorial artist.
At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History William Andrews 1878
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For intermittent though necessary expenses, such as tonsorial service, clothing and books.
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Alongside Keegle in the pundits' chairs was the former West Ham and Northern Ireland defender Steve Lomas, who has also undergone something of a tonsorial transformation.
Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner 2011
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It was what is known in tonsorial parlance a highbrow way of saying barber talk as a unibrow, a strip of hair not unlike roadkill that extended from above the corner of my left eye to above the corner of my right eye.
Jerry Zezima: 'How Now Waxed Brow' Jerry Zezima 2011
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It is as a tonsorial phenomenon that the Beatles may make their enduring mark on our culture.
♪♫ When the Beatles took over 'The Ed Sullivan Show' -- and The Post didn't like it Melissa Bell 2011
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Waddle and Keegan certainly lived the in tonsorial fast lane in their day.
Keegle is noble but good taste takes a tumbril | Martin Kelner 2011
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It was what is known in tonsorial parlance a highbrow way of saying barber talk as a unibrow, a strip of hair not unlike roadkill that extended from above the corner of my left eye to above the corner of my right eye.
Jerry Zezima: 'How Now Waxed Brow' Jerry Zezima 2011
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It was what is known in tonsorial parlance a highbrow way of saying barber talk as a unibrow, a strip of hair not unlike roadkill that extended from above the corner of my left eye to above the corner of my right eye.
Jerry Zezima: 'How Now Waxed Brow' Jerry Zezima 2011
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For a man who appears to have gone into the barbers with a picture of Hitler and said "this please, but without the moustache" to even think of scoring tonsorial points shows a lack of self-knowledge that is staggering even for Barton.
Joey Barton's robust Twitter chatter is sadly far from riotous | Martin Kelner 2011
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It was what is known in tonsorial parlance a highbrow way of saying barber talk as a unibrow, a strip of hair not unlike roadkill that extended from above the corner of my left eye to above the corner of my right eye.
Jerry Zezima: 'How Now Waxed Brow' Jerry Zezima 2011
tumbel commented on the word tonsorial
in a review of the musical HAIR, the writer refers to "tonsorial kudzu."
August 18, 2008
Prolagus commented on the word tonsorial
I'm sure Belle and Sebastian will use this word someday.
September 10, 2008