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 Denslow, W. W. (William Wallace)

As a source of valuable information, it beats the Encyclopedia Brittanica in an easy hand gallop; the tonsorial artist is not in its class and even the 'Intelligence Office,' pales into innocuous desuetude beside it.

From Said the Observer by Stellman, Louis J. (Louis John)

In later years our barber at Wakefield was somewhat of a dandy, and would, perhaps, have preferred being called a tonsorial artist.

From At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History by Andrews, William