stylist

From style +‎ -ist.

• IPA^(key): /ˈstaɪlɪst/

stylist (plural stylists)

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.
   • 1896, Robert Louis Stevenson, Familiar Studies of Men and Books‎:

     If Doctor Johnson, that stilted and accomplished stylist, had lacked the sacred Boswell, what should we have known of him?

4. An artist who has a particular distinctive style.
   • 2003, Jack Shadoian, Dreams and Dead Ends: The American Gangster Film, page 196:

     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.

• hair stylist
• food stylist

• stylistics

• “stylist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “stylist”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

• stajlist

stylist c

1. a stylist

• stylist in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)