coiffure
/kwɑˈfjʊɚ/
coiffure noun: hairstyle.
Noun
coiffure (countable and uncountable, plural coiffures)
Verb
coiffure (third-person singular simple present coiffures, present participle coiffuring, simple past and past participle coiffured)
- To style or arrange hair.
- 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...1920, E. Phillips Oppenheim, The Great Impersonation
coiffure meaning in Tamil, Bengali and Kannada
coiffure in Tamil
- சிகை அலங்காரம், முடி ஒப்பனை, திருத்தம், தலையணி
coiffure in Bengali
- চুলের স্টাইল, সাজ
coiffure in Kannada
- ಕೇಶಾಲಂಕಾರ
Examples of coiffure in a sentence
- 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:
- Her attire is rich, she wears costly jewels, and her hair is tastefully coiffured.1842, Edgcumbe Staley, The Tragedies of the Medici:
Forms of coiffure
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | coiffures |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | coiffures |
| present participle | coiffuring |
| past participle | coiffured |
| past | coiffured |
Origin of coiffure
Borrowed from French coiffure.
Questions about coiffure
- What does coiffure mean?
- Coiffure means hairstyle.
- What is coiffure in Tamil?
- Coiffure in Tamil is சிகை அலங்காரம், முடி ஒப்பனை, திருத்தம். See Coiffure meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use coiffure in a sentence?
- Her hair was far less elaborately coiffured and her toilette less magnificent than the toilettes of the women by whom she was surrounded.
- What part of speech is coiffure?
- Coiffure can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce coiffure?
- Coiffure is pronounced /kwɑˈfjʊɚ/.
- What is the plural of coiffure?
- The plural of coiffure is coiffures.
Words near coiffure in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: coiffure (page history and authors); coiffure (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coiffure (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); coiffure (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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