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Definition of tonsorial in English: tonsorialadjective tɒnˈsɔːrɪəltɑnˈsɔriəl humorous, formal Relating to hairdressing. 〈正式或幽默〉(与)理发(有关)的 she'd had her customary go at me over tonsorial neglect Example sentencesExamples - Her eleven-thirty was poised, with scissors and hair-dryer at the ready to perform yet another act of tonsorial topiary on her pretty little head.
- But Sam's tonsorial issues are the least of his problems.
- Forgive the tonsorial obsession, for which there are two reasons.
- Those who know me will know I don't pay much attention to matters tonsorial.
- More ugly facial hair comes in the form of a thin vertical line of tonsorial bush dividing the chin area under the bottom lip into two equal parts.
- This was the commercial that had an old barber offer his young customer a unique solution to get the tonsorial look he desires.
- His tonsorial extravaganza left him with something approaching 5 o'clock stubble on his scalp!
- Or maybe it's just the natural camaraderie of the tonsorial parlor.
- He was one of the town's two tonsorial artists.
- A few of the bolder women stroke the hair of the blondes in our group - the people who live along the Siang are South-East Asian in appearance, and lack variety on the tonsorial front.
- I envy the youth of today, who never had to live through an era of such tonsorial, not to say sartorial, horrors.
- I conducted extensive detailed research into the tonsorial tendencies at the beginning of the previous century.
Derivativesadverb humorous, formal as submodifier a tonsorially flamboyant gangster Example sentencesExamples - If your friends are tonsorially challenged, visit a barber or salon on Saturdays (the busiest day) and find out which stylist is most difficult to get an appointment with.
- Her beautician is kind of a genius - once, when I was in Virginia with bangs that were too long, Charlene gave me a quick trim that utterly transformed my whole head - and Sarah has been in the zone, tonsorially speaking, for a couple of years now.
- The fact that he is British and shaven headed may be of some comfort to, say, the tonsorially elegant Antipodean, but frankly, does it matter?
- During my more tonsorially experimental phases, I noted with interest that the levels of attention I would get from in-store security staff depended on the colour of my hair.
- I was just wondering why women should think that bald men were more intelligent than those of us not tonsorially challenged.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Latin tonsorius (from tonsor 'barber', from tondere 'shear, clip') + -al. Rhymesaccessorial, accusatorial, advertorial, ambassadorial, arboreal, armorial, auditorial, authorial, boreal, censorial, combinatorial, consistorial, conspiratorial, corporeal, curatorial, dictatorial, directorial, editorial, equatorial, executorial, gladiatorial, gubernatorial, immemorial, imperatorial, janitorial, lavatorial, manorial, marmoreal, memorial, monitorial, natatorial, oratorial, oriel, pictorial, piscatorial, prefectorial, professorial, proprietorial, rectorial, reportorial, sartorial, scriptorial, sectorial, senatorial, territorial, tutorial, uxorial, vectorial, visitorial Definition of tonsorial in US English: tonsorialadjectivetɑnˈsɔriəltänˈsôrēəl formal, humorous Relating to hairdressing. 〈正式或幽默〉(与)理发(有关)的 Example sentencesExamples - Forgive the tonsorial obsession, for which there are two reasons.
- Those who know me will know I don't pay much attention to matters tonsorial.
- Or maybe it's just the natural camaraderie of the tonsorial parlor.
- His tonsorial extravaganza left him with something approaching 5 o'clock stubble on his scalp!
- A few of the bolder women stroke the hair of the blondes in our group - the people who live along the Siang are South-East Asian in appearance, and lack variety on the tonsorial front.
- I conducted extensive detailed research into the tonsorial tendencies at the beginning of the previous century.
- Her eleven-thirty was poised, with scissors and hair-dryer at the ready to perform yet another act of tonsorial topiary on her pretty little head.
- But Sam's tonsorial issues are the least of his problems.
- I envy the youth of today, who never had to live through an era of such tonsorial, not to say sartorial, horrors.
- He was one of the town's two tonsorial artists.
- More ugly facial hair comes in the form of a thin vertical line of tonsorial bush dividing the chin area under the bottom lip into two equal parts.
- This was the commercial that had an old barber offer his young customer a unique solution to get the tonsorial look he desires.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Latin tonsorius (from tonsor ‘barber’, from tondere ‘shear, clip’) + -al. |