Wollstonecraft Mary|passage=Nay, I would make it so interesting, that the fair peruser should beg the hair-dresser to settle the curls himself, and not interrupt her.
1799, w:William Winterbotham, An Historical, Geographical, Commercial, and Philosophical View of the American United States, and of the European Settlements in America and the West-Indies, Many were afraid to allow the barbers or hair-dreſſers to come near them, as inſtances had occurred of ſome of them having ſhaved the dead, and many of them had engaged as bleeders.
1915, w:Frances Hodgson Burnett, w:The Lost Prince (Burnett novel) Chapter A Night Vigil, “... Yesterday we went to a hair-dresser’s shop down below there, and we saw a man who was almost exactly like you—only—†he added, looking up, “his eyes were gray and yours are brown.†“He was my twin brother,†said the guide, puffing at his pipe cheerfully. “My father thought he could make hair-dressers of us both, and I tried it for four years. But I always wanted to be climbing the mountains and there were not holidays enough. So I cut my hair, and washed the pomade out of it, and broke away. I don’t look like a hair-dresser now, do I?â€
