coiffure
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French coiffure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwɑˈfjʊə(ɹ)/
Noun
coiffure (countable and uncountable, plural coiffures)
- hairstyle
Translations
hairstyle — see hairstyle
Verb
coiffure (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:
- 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:
- 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:
- 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:
- Her attire is rich, she wears costly jewels, and her hair is tastefully coiffured.
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Anagrams
- coiffeur
French
Etymology
From coiffer (“to cover the head, to give a haircut, style the hair”) + -ure.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kwa.fyʁ/
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Noun
coiffure f (plural coiffures)
- headwear, headgear (garment worn on someone's head)
- hairstyle
Derived terms
- coiffure à la garçonne
- salon de coiffure
Related terms
- coiffer
- coiffeur
Descendants
- → English: coiffure
- → Ottoman Turkish: قوافور (kuvafür)
- Turkish: kuvafür
- → Polish: koafiura
Further reading
- “coiffure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- coiffeur