About midnight the silent streets are filled with the long-drawn cry of the Shampooer or barber, who by kneading and patting the muscles induces sleep for the modest sum of 4 annas; and barely has his voice died away than the Muezzin's call to prayer falls on the ear of the sleeper, arouses in his heart thoughts of the past glory of his Faith, and forces him from his couch to wash and bend in prayer before Him "Who fainteth not, Whom neither sleep nor fatigue overtaketh."
"By-Ways of Bombay"
S. M. Edwardes, C.V.O.
Unconsciously he had passed just behind the heels of the stranger's horse, which being by no means in good humour with the clumsy manoeuvres of his Shampooer, the hostler, had taken advantage of the opportunity presented to him of working off his irritability, and had consequently inflicted a severe kick upon the right shoulder of Mr. C. L. The stranger, honoured by the landlady with the name and title of Squire Mordaunt, was in the yard at the moment.
"The Disowned, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
It will be remembered that Mr. Quilter, in one of his most vivid and picturesque metaphors, compared Mr. Collier's method as a painter to that of a Shampooer in a Turkish bath.
"Reviews"
Oscar Wilde