#coiffure
Noun
[ kwah-fyoor;Frenchkwa-fyr]
1. a style of arranging the hair.
2. a head covering; headdress.
Verb (used with object)
3. to arrange or comb (the hair) in a coiffure; to style (the hair).
4. to provide with a head covering or headdress; cover with a coiffure.
Origin:
First recorded in 1625–35; from French, equivalent to coiff(er) “to dress the hair” + -ure noun suffix; see origin at coif2,-ure
“He rose and kissed her lightly on the forehead, experience teaching him to avoid a stray hair from the carefully built coiffure.”
- Gertrude Atherton, Ancestors
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