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Definition of Barber
Barber

One whose occupation it is to shave or trim the beard, and to cut and dress the hair of his patrons.

To shave and dress the beard or hair of.

A storm accompanied by driving ice spicules formed from sea water, esp. one occurring on the Gulf of St. Lawrence; -- so named from the cutting ice spicules.

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Barber Quotations

So she went into the garden to cut a cabbage-leaf, to make an apple-pie; and at the same time a great she-bear, coming up the street, pops its head into the shop. 'What! no soap?' So he died, and she very imprudently married the barber.
Samuel Foote

Right at the end of the war I wrote a piano sonata, which was written at a time when Sam Barber used to come down here and we used to have lunch together in a very nice old hotel that's now not there.
Elliott Carter

I did study the art of being a barber because I wanted to figure out what my routine would be. Do you start in the front or back? Top or bottom? Swivel the chair or walk around? What I did discover is there's no such thing as the perfect haircut!
Sean Patrick Thomas

My real father died when I was two years old, so I never knew him. He was a barber in Chicago.
Donald Johanson

Colloquial poetry is to the real art as the barber's wax dummy is to sculpture.
Ezra Pound

Barber Translations

barber in Afrikaans is barbier, haarkapper
barber in Dutch is kapper, barbier
barber in French is coiffeur, barbier
barber in German is Friseur
barber in Italian is parrucchiere
barber in Latin is tonsor
barber in Portuguese is barbeiro, cabeleireiro
barber in Spanish is peluquero, barbero

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