Translation
hairdresser, barber
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Word origin
From coiffer ("to style hair, to cover the head"), from coiffe ("headdress"), from Late Latin cofea, with the agent suffix -eur.
- Origin
- Late Latin
- Root
- cofea
- English cognates
- coif
Grammar
Examples
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I am going to the hairdresser's tomorrow morning.
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My hairdresser advised me to have a shorter cut.
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The hairdresser made an appointment for Thursday.
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He dreams of becoming a hairdresser in a big salon.
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My father's barber still works with a razor.
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