tonsorial artist
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After a month with no income, and a few months after his second expensive illness in two years, the folksy, wisecracking tonsorial artist needed to get back on the job.
From Washington Times ● May 31, 2017
Said one: "Those of us who rely entirely on shaves and haircuts for existence must be ranked with the village tonsorial artist who makes a sideline of pulling teeth."
From Time Magazine Archive
On my return I happened to stop in front of the barber shop, when the tonsorial artist asked how I'd trade my horse for the shop.
From Twenty Years of Hus'ling by W. W. (William Wallace) Denslow
Next you hove in sight, and held a pow-wow with the tonsorial artist who insisted upon talking shop after hours.
From Cabbages and Kings by O. Henry
The "profile" was taken when I was sadly in need of the application of the scissors of the tonsorial artist.
From The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 30, June 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by George Newnes
