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

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

Several of us had gone under the transforming hands of this tonsorial artist, when Bob McIntosh got his turn.

From From the Rapidan to Richmond and the Spottsylvania Campaign A Sketch in Personal Narration of the Scenes a Soldier Saw by Dame, William Meade

The Japanese tonsorial artist shaves without the aid of soap, merely wetting the face by dipping his fingers in a bowl of warm water.

From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Stevens, Thomas