stylist
noun/ˈstaɪlɪst/
Etymology From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.
1
A designer.
2
A hairdresser.
3
A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.
- If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books:
4
An artist who has a particular distinctive style.
- A plain, seemingly graceless stylist, his rather unpalatable movies, full of rabid, sloggingly orchestrated physical pain and psychic damage, picture crime as a monstrous, miasmal evil, divesting it of any glamour it ever had.2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:
- Derived terms
- food stylist, hair stylist, hairstylist, polystylist
- Related terms
- stylistics