hairdressing

1. The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.
   • 1977, Agatha Christie, chapter 4, in An Autobiography, part II, London: Collins, →ISBN:

     There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs; […].

• hairdress
• hairdresser

1. present participle of hairdress#English|hairdress