friseur

Example Sentences

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The friseur was engaged in this critical operation, and whole ranks of ladies stood round, one of them reading aloud one of Plutarch's Lives.

From Stray Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

He went fearfully and cautiously, yet with a look of curiosity at the state of her head, and the operations of her friseur, that seemed to draw him on more powerfully than her commands.

From The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3 by Burney, Fanny

She was teaching a Highland dance to a graceful cavalier in white silk breeches, flowered satin waistcoat, and most choicely powdered periwig, fresh from the friseur.

From A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45 by Travis, Stuart

Here he kept for himself a shop-boy, a man-cook, a friseur, a barber, and a reader of morning papers.

From The Invisible Lodge by Jean Paul

He looked at the friseur with a painful feeling, hoping every moment that the tower of curls would be complete.

From Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship and Travels, Vol. I (of 2) by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von