Also frizeur. [Fr. friseur, f. friser to FRIZZ.] A hairdresser; now rare.
1750. Chesterf., Lett. (1774), II. 60. Let your man learn of the best friseur to do your hair well.
1777. Franklin, Lett., Wks. 1889, VI. 69. I wish every lady and gentleman in France would … dismiss their friseurs, and pay me half the money they paid to them.
1816. Sporting Mag., XLVII. 306. By mercers, frizeurs, mantua-makers press’d.
1831. J. Jekyll, Corr. (1894), 279. The sister, a romp, married a sort of friseur, the son of old Viscount Fitzwilliam.
1856. R. W. Procter, Barber’s Shop, vii. (1883), 35. He was surpassed by … a conscientious frizeur of an older school.
