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Stylist

//ˈstaɪlɪst// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    A designer.
  2. 2
    someone who cuts or beautifies hair wordnet
  3. 3
    A hairdresser.
  4. 4
    an artist who is a master of a particular style wordnet
  5. 5
    A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.

    "If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?"

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  1. 6
    An artist who has a particular distinctive style.

    "A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had."

Etymology

From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.

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