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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Bader

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An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B (1891)
by Friedrich Kluge, translated by John Francis Davis
Bader
Friedrich Kluge2505884An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language, B — Bader1891John Francis Davis

Bader, m., ‘barber,’ from MidHG. badœre, ‘one who looks after the bathers in the bath-house.’ “In the later period of the Middle Ages it was a custom to get the beard shaved and the hair cut by the Bader at the end of the bath.”