Tuesday 26th April
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Tonsorial \ [ton-sawr-ee-uh l, -sohr-]
adjective
1. of or relating to a barber or barbering:
the tonsorial shop.
Quote
The more seriously he took the tonsorial art, the more he studied its tricks and
phrases and heard old barbers lecture, the more sure were the imps of youth to
prompt him to laughter and urge him to something outrageous and ridiculous.
Lord Dunsany, Tales of War 1918
Origin
Tonsorial finds its roots in the Latin verb tondēre meaning "to shave."
It entered English in the early 1800’s.
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