Word of the Day:
stylist
What It Means
A designer.
A hairdresser.
A writer or speaker distinguished for excellence or individuality of style; one who cultivates, or is a master or critic of, literary style.
Stylist in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From style + -ist. Piecewise doublet of stylista.
Source and license
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