coiffure

plural coiffures

1. countableuncountableHairstyle.

present singular third person coiffures · participle present coiffuring · participle past coiffured · past coiffured

1. transitiveTo style or arrange hair.

   Her attire is rich, she wears costly jewels, and her hair is tastefully coiffured.

   1842, Edgcumbe Staley, The Tragedies of the Medici

   3 more examples

   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.

   1996 August 23, Ted Shen, “Angel Dust”, in Chicago Reader

   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.

   1920, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation

   Her hair was far less elaborately coiffured and her toilette less magnificent than the toilettes of the women by whom she was surrounded.

   1915, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Mr. Grex of Monte Carlo