coiffure
English
editEtymology
editBorrowed from French coiffure.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcoiffure (countable and uncountable, plural coiffures)
Translations
edithairstyle — see hairstyle
Verb
editcoiffure (third-person singular simple present coiffures, present participle coiffuring, simple past and past participle coiffured)
- (transitive) to style or arrange hair
- 1996 August 23, Ted Shen, “Angel Dust”, in Chicago Reader[1]:
- Perfectly coiffured and seemingly imperturbable, Setsuko approaches madness as her psychological and sexual insecurities are dredged up by confrontations with her past and mind games with the suspected murderer.
- 1920, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation[2]:
- Her eyes seldom left for long the other end of the table, where Stephanie, at Dominey's left hand, with her crown of exquisitely coiffured red-gold hair, her marvellous jewellery, her languorous grace of manner, seemed more like one of the beauties of an ancient Venetian Court than a modern Hungarian Princess gowned in the Rue de la Paix.
- 1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo[3]:
- Her hair was far less elaborately coiffured and her toilette less magnificent than the toilettes of the women by whom she was surrounded.
- 1842, Edgcumbe Staley, The Tragedies of the Medici[4]:
- Her attire is rich, she wears costly jewels, and her hair is tastefully coiffured.
Anagrams
editFrench
editEtymology
editFrom coiffer (“to cover the head, to give a haircut, style the hair”) + -ure.
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcoiffure f (plural coiffures)
Derived terms
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editDescendants
editFurther reading
edit- “coiffure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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