#gertrude atherton

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