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Hairdressing

noun, verb

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser. countable, uncountable

    "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;[…]."

  2. 2
    care for the hair: the activity of washing or cutting or curling or arranging the hair wordnet
  3. 3
    a toiletry for the hair wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of hairdress form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hair + dressing.

Etymology 2

From hair + dressing.

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