Cosmetician

noun

noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A person skilled at applying cosmetics.

    "Is that like a cosmetician? "A cosmetician can refer to a person with little training," she explained, "who works, say, in a department store to sell and apply makeup.""

  2. 2
    someone who works in a beauty parlor wordnet
  3. 3
    A person who manufactures or sells cosmetics.
  4. 4
    someone who sells or applies cosmetics wordnet

Example

More examples

"Time is a good physician, but a bad cosmetician."

Etymology

From cosmetics + -ician.

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