coiffure

Borrowed from French coiffure.

• IPA^(key): /kwɑˈfjʊɚ/

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coiffure (countable and uncountable, plural coiffures)

1. Hairstyle.

coiffure (third-person singular simple present coiffures, present participle coiffuring, simple past and past participle coiffured)

1. (transitive) To style or arrange hair.
   • 1996 August 23, Ted Shen, “Angel Dust”, in Chicago Reader‎^[1]:

     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^[2]:

     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^[3]:

     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^[4]:

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

• coiffeur

From coiffer (“to cover the head, to give a haircut, style the hair”) +‎ -ure.

• IPA^(key): /kwa.fyʁ/

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coiffure f (plural coiffures)

1. headwear, headgear (garment worn on one's head)
   • 1857, Gustave Flaubert, chapter 1, in Madame Bovary […] ‎^[5], first part:

     C’était une de ces coiffures d’ordre composite, où l’on retrouve les éléments du bonnet à poil, du chapska, du chapeau rond, de la casquette de loutre et du bonnet de coton, une de ces pauvres choses, enfin, dont la laideur muette a des profondeurs d’expression comme le visage d’un imbécile.

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2. hairstyle

• coiffure à la garçonne
• salon de coiffure

• coiffer
• coiffeur

• → English: coiffure
• → Ottoman Turkish: قوافور (kuvafür)
  • Turkish: kuvafür
• → Polish: koafiura

• “coiffure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• coiffeur