Other forms: hairstyles
A hairstyle is the shape a person's hair is cut and worn in. Change your hairstyle, a new hairstyle, an old-fashioned hairstyle.
It dates a photograph faster than clothes do, because fashions in hair turn over quickly and everybody follows them without noticing. What suits somebody depends on the hair's texture more than on the picture they bring to the salon.
1nounhairstyleThe shape a person's hair is cut and worn in.
“She came back from the salon with a short new hairstyle that suited her.”
hairstyle is a style.
Hair plus style, a twentieth-century compound. Style comes from Latin stilus, a writing implement, hence a manner of doing.
From hair + style.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA