friseur

From French friseur, from friser (“to curl, frizz”).

friseur (plural friseurs)

1. (now rare) A hairdresser.
   • 1817 December 31 (indicated as 1818), [Walter Scott], chapter II, in Rob Roy. […], volume I, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Archibald Constable and Co. […]; London: Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, →OCLC, page 35:

     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.

• frizz

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “friseur”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “friseur”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

• frisure, furries, surfier

From friser +‎ -eur.

• IPA^(key): /fʁi.zœʁ/

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• Homophone: freezer

friseur m (plural friseurs, feminine friseuse)

1. (dated) hairdresser

   Synonym: coiffeur

• friser

• → English: friseur
• → Danish: frisør
• → German: Friseur
• → Polish: fryzjer
• → Romanian: frizer
• → Serbo-Croatian: frizer
• → Swedish: frisör

• “friseur”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.