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💈 Barber Pole
Also known as: Barber Shop, Barber's Stripes, Hairdresser
Unicode: U+1F488
Description
A pole spiraled with red, white, and blue stripes, as spins out front of a barbershop. Commonly used for various content concerning haircutting and hairstyling. May also be associated with brothels in parts of Asia.
Image Variants

3D
Color
Flat
High Contrast
Version Information
Emoji Version:1.0
Unicode Version:6.0
Keywords
barberhaircutpole
Shortcodes
Platform | Shortcode | Action |
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Emojipedia | :barber_pole: | |
GitHub | :barber: | |
Slack | :barber: | |
Discord | :barber: |
Additional Information
Category:Miscellaneous Symbols And Pictographs -> Personal care symbols
Definition:
A pole with red, white and blue stripes. Traditionally used by barbers out the front of their place of work. May be used in parts of Asia to http://emojipedia.org/barber-pole/
Nouns:
- A pass behind or through an object.
- Decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object
- A gallery of design elements that can be used to embellish publications.
- An element of decoration.
- Purely decorative elements in architecture and the decorative arts
- In architecture and decorative art, ornament is a decoration used to embellish parts of a building or object.
- Decoration, adornment or embellishment.
- Rope: pass behind or through an object.
- Musical flourishes that are not necessary to the overall melodic (or harmonic) line
- Something used to beautify
- An element of decoration; that which embellishes or adorns.
- In music, ornaments or embellishments are musical flourishes that are not necessary to carry the overall line of the melody, but serve instead to decorate or "ornament" that line.