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Coiffeur

Definition: Coiffeur

Coiffeur

Noun

1. A man hairdresser.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "coiffeur" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1830. (references)

Etymology: Coiffeur \Coif`feur"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: Coiffeur

Specialty definitions using "coiffeur": POMPADOUR. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Coiffeur" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

French (barber, coiffure, hairdresser, stylist), Romansch (hairdresser).

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Modern Usage: Coiffeur

DomainUsage

Movie/TV Titles

Coiffeur pour dames (1952)

Chez le coiffeur (1915)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Coiffeur

DomainTitle

Books

  • Ici bon coiffeur (reference)

  • La vie d'un métier-- coiffeur : histoire, publicités, traditions, collections (reference)

  • Le coiffeur de Kouta : roman (reference)

    (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Coiffeur

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

coiffeur

70

coiffeur hair

3

coiffeur visagiste

3

coiffeur le

3

coiffeur lille

2

ciseaux coiffeur

2

coiffeur woman

2

coiffeur de tondeuse

2

coiffeur domicile

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Coiffeur

Language Translations for "coiffeur"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

berber (barber, hairdresser, shaver). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

фризьор (hairdresser). (various references)

   

Czech

  

pánský kadeřník. (various references)

   

German

  

Friseur (barber, haircutter, hairdresser, hair-dresser, stylist). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

fodrász (barber, hairdresser). (various references)

   

Manx

  

jesheeneyder fuilt. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

oiffeurcay

   

Portuguese

  

cabeleireiro (barber, haircutter, hairdresser). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

coafor (hairdresser). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

парикмахер (barber, hairdresser). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

frizer (hairdresser). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

peluquero (barber, haircutter, hairdresser). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

frisör (barber, hairdresser, stylist). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ช่างแต่งผมที่เป็นผู้ชาย. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kuaför (hairdresser, hairdressing salon, hairstylist, tonsorial artist), kadın berberi. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

перукар (barber, haircutter, hairdresser). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

thợ cắt tóc (haidresser). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Coiffeur

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Late Latin300-700

cofia. (various references)

French1500-Modern

coiffer. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Coiffeur

Derivations

Words beginning with "coiffeur": coiffeurs. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Coiffeur" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: choffeur, Cioffe, coifer, coiffer, coiffeured. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Coiffeur

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: coiffure.

Words within the letters "c-e-f-f-i-o-r-u"

-1 letter: officer.

-2 letters: coffer, coiffe, office.

-3 letters: curie, curio, fifer, force, offer, ourie, ruffe, ureic.

-4 letters: cero, cire, coff, coif, coir, core, corf, cuff, cuif, cure, curf, ecru, euro, fice, fico, fief, fife, fire, foci, fore, four, froe, fuci, reif, rice, rife, riff, roue, ruff, uric.

-5 letters: cor, cue, cur, ecu, eff, fer, feu, fie, fir.

 Words containing the letters "c-e-f-f-i-o-r-u"
 

+1 letter: coiffeurs, coiffured, coiffures.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Coiffeur


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6F 69 66 66 65 75 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

-.-.    ---    ..    ..-.    ..-.    .    ..-    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101111 01101001 01100110 01100110 01100101 01110101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#111 &#105 &#102 &#102 &#101 &#117 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006F 0069 0066 0066 0065 0075 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

3781757272718784

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Usage: Modern
4. Usage: Commercial
5. Expressions: Internet
6. Translations: Modern
7. Translations: Ancient
8. Derivations
9. Anagrams
10. Orthography
11. Bibliography


  

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