Meanings
plural hairdressings
- countableuncountableThe washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.
There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;[…].
1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of hairdress
Synonyms & antonyms
nouncare for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Hungarian fodrászat
- fodrászatthe art or trade of a hairdresser
Vietnamese nghề làm tóc
- nghề làm tócthe art or trade of a hairdresser
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hairdressing. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hairdressing
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