Your friseur is a Frenchman, I suppose?. From Wordnik.com. [She Stoops to Conquer] Reference
Let your man learn of the best friseur to do your hair well, for that is a very material part of your dress. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
If he visits her when she is dressed, and perceives the least impropriety in her coeffure, he insists upon adjusting it with his own hands: if he sees a curl, or even a single hair amiss, he produces his comb, his scissars, and pomatum, and sets it to rights with the dexterity of a professed friseur. From Wordnik.com. [Travels through France and Italy] Reference
I had a gentleman to wait upon me, a French friseur to dress my hair of a morning; I knew the taste of chocolate as by intuition almost, and could distinguish between the right Spanish and the French before I had been a week in my new position; I had rings on all my fingers, watches in both my fobs, canes, trinkets, and snuffboxes of all sorts, and each outvying the other in elegance. From Wordnik.com. [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference
"I'll maybe frighten the ladies," said the ex-friseur. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary — Complete] Reference
` ` I'll maybe frighten the ladies, '' said the ex-friseur. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
The Widow Capet needs no milliner now; she needs no friseur now for her toilette. From Wordnik.com. [Empress Josephine An historical sketch of the days of Napoleon] Reference
He was gentlemanly, without a doubt, and he must be well off to employ such a good tailor and friseur. From Wordnik.com. [The Malady of the Century] Reference
He looked at the friseur with a painful feeling, hoping every moment that the tower of curls would be complete. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter V. Book III] Reference
I patronized every complexion-specialist, friseur, perukier, manicurist and fashionable barber in that part of the world. From Wordnik.com. [Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [Stray Pearls] Reference
Her hair was not disfigured by the art of the friseur, but fell in jetty ringlets on her neck, confined only by a circlet, richly set with diamonds. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley — Volume 1] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Raasay A Tale of the '45] Reference
She conversed upon various public and general topics till the friseur was dismissed, and then I was honoured with an audience, quite alone, for a full hour and a half. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
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 Wordnik.com. [The Diary and Letters of Madame D'Arblay — Volume 3] Reference
Do you think, when I sat tortured two hours under the hands of my friseur, and an hour more at my toilet, that I had any thoughts of my aunt Susan, or my cousin Betsey? though they are both allowed to be critical judges of dress. From Wordnik.com. [The Contrast] Reference
The recluse life led here at Richmond, which is carried to such an excess of privacy and economy, that the Queen's friseur waits on them at dinner, and that four pounds only of beef are allowed for their soup, disgusts all sorts of people. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 3] Reference
As for poor Owen, could the bob-wig which he then wore have uncurled itself, and stood on end with horror, I am convinced the morning's labour of the friseur would have been undone, merely by the excess of his astonishment at this enormity. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy — Volume 01] Reference
` ` It's a pity he disna get his hair tied and pouthered, '' said the ancient friseur, when he had got once more into the kitchen, in which, on one pretence or other, he spent three parts of his idle time --- that is to say, of his whole time --- ` ` it's a great pity, for he's a comely young gentleman. ''. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
She was Lorand's "friseur" and Topándy's. From Wordnik.com. [Debts of Honor] Reference
As for poor Owen, could the bob-wig which he then wore have uncurled itself, and stood on end with horror, I am convinced the morning’s labour of the friseur would have been undone, merely by the excess of his astonishment at this enormity. From Wordnik.com. [Rob Roy] Reference
“I’ll maybe frighten the ladies,” said the ex-friseur. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
He was, madam, about fifteen months ago, a journeyman to my Lord S — ’s friseur, and. From Wordnik.com. [Ashton Priory] Reference
“It’s a pity he disna get his hair tied and pouthered,” said the ancient friseur, when he had got once more into the kitchen, in which, on one pretence or other, he spent three parts of his idle time — that is to say, of his whole time — “it’s a great pity, for he’s a comely young gentleman.”. From Wordnik.com. [The Antiquary] Reference
"Fine morning, gentlemen," said the friseur. From Wordnik.com. [Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. Or, The Rambles And Adventures Of Bob Tallyho, Esq., And His Cousin, The Hon. Tom Dashall, Through The Metropolis; Exhibiting A Living Picture Of Fashionable Characters, Manners, And Amusements In High And Low Life (1821)] Reference
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