hairdressing
noun
- cutting and styling of hair
Wiktionary
noun
Etymology: From hair + dressing.
- The washing, colouring, cutting and styling of the hair; the art or trade of a hairdresser.
“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;[…].”
verb
Etymology: From hair + dressing.
- present participle and gerund of hairdress