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beautician

UK/bjuːˈtɪ(t)ʃən/
nounB2+Rare in speech; mostly a word you read · #12,600 of 15,258neutral

Other forms: beauticians

A beautician is a person who gives beauty treatments. Train as a beautician, the beautician's chair, a mobile beautician.

The work is licensed in most places, since it involves chemicals, heat and needles near people's faces. The word was coined in Ohio in the 1920s, on the model of technician and electrician, and it has always sounded slightly invented for that reason.

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Definitions of beautician

  1. 1nounbeauticianA person who gives beauty treatments.B2+

    “She works as a beautician, giving facials and manicures in a small salon.”

beautician is a worker.

Where it comes from

Beauty plus the ending of technician, coined in Cleveland, Ohio, in the 1920s.

beauty and technician, originally coined in Cleveland, Ohio, 1920s.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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beautician in the wild

  • Magali Febles is a Dominican beautician and beauty pageant circuit personality.

    Magali Febles

  • Neil Morrissey plays part-time taxi driver Barry and Claire Rushbrook is his beautician wife Carrie.

    Carrie & Barry

  • Mark Williams plays Barry's mate Kirk, who co-owns his black cab (he does the night shifts) whilst Michelle Gomez is Carrie's acid-tongued best friend and fellow beautician Michelle.

    Carrie & Barry

  • Melinda Midajah Flores is an American personal trainer, fitness model, beautician, former professional wrestling manager and actress, better known by her ring name, Midajah.

    Midajah

  • Visser, who had previously worked as a model and beautician, was crowned Miss Holland in August 1988.

    Angela Visser

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.