beautician
pronunciation
How to pronounce beautician in British English:
UK [bju:ˈtɪʃn]
How to pronounce beautician in American English:
US [bjuˈtɪʃən]
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- Noun:
- someone who works in a beauty parlor
Word Origin
- beautician (n.)
- first recorded 1924, American English (the Cleveland, Ohio, telephone directory, to be precise), from beauty + ending as in technician. Beauty salon is from 1922, a substitution for prosaic beauty shop (1901).
Example
- 1. Whoopie goldberg was a mortuary beautician and phone sex operator
- 2. I 'm going to the beautician to have a facial .
- 3. Author susan christy is an experienced beautician .
- 4. Beautician also said nothing about it .
- 5. July 05 -- in joplin , a wounded beautician had a request for the busy intensive care nurse .