coiffe
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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The playwright also recalls that he was sporting a shaggy coiffe that was popular at the time, which prompted the movie star to tell him that he should get a haircut.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2014
Frizzled and coiffe, not a hair was out of order, not a speck lodged on the sleek surface of the blue coat, not a wrinkle crumpled the snowy vest, with its under-relief of delicate pink.
From Zanoni by Lytton, Edward Bulwer Lytton, Baron
In the kitchen an old Breton woman, chopping herbs, looked up at him out of aged eyes, shaking her head under its white coiffe.
From Barbarians by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
The men shave a line in the hair like a fillet round the skull, and what is left is coiffe au coup de vent.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
The boy was describing a Breton bed, and the white cap was the coiffe that my mother wore.
From The Magician by Maugham, W. Somerset (William Somerset)
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