Meaning & use

tonsorial

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Relating to hairdressing or barbering.

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The old barbershop still displays its tonsorial tools from the 1950s.

He wrote a humorous essay on the tonsorial habits of Victorian gentlemen.

A note on using this word

Tonsorial is a formal, often playful word rarely used outside of humorous or deliberately elevated writing about haircutting.

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