nonce-wd. [f. Gr. *τριχοτόμος adj. hair-cutting (implied in τριχοτομεῖν to cut the hair) + -IST.] A hair-cutter.
1875. R. F. Burton, Gorilla L. (1876), I. 205. Whatever absurdity in hair may be demanded by the trichotomists and philopogons of Europe, I can at once supply it to any extent from Africa.
