chignon
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Ms Ardern wore a fitted ivory dress by designer Juliette Hogan - who is reportedly a close friend of the ex-PM - and a long veil clipped onto a chignon up-do hairstyle.
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2024
Her blond hair was usually ironed straight or pulled back into a messy chignon.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 3, 2022
The scar is shaped like a spiral, a snail, which is a direct homage to Madeleine's chignon in "Vertigo," which is also shaped like a snail.
From Salon ● Oct. 5, 2021
Her hair is braided and then twisted into a chignon and she wears tiny gold earrings.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2020
Her hair was pinned up as usual, but not in the signature French chignon twist she’d been wearing when Maddie had left her last night.
From "Code Name Verity" by Elizabeth Wein
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The rest of society is a blend of every skin tone and ethnicity: neoclassical ringlets and jewel-adorned chignons mingle with powdered Afros and flowing dreadlocks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 21, 2020
The crowd, featuring cummerbunds and chignons, sang along to Boyz II Men’s “End of the Road,” and swayed as the singer Joss Stone performed barefoot on stage.
From New York Times ● Jun. 1, 2015
It’s always refreshing to see texture on the red carpet, and artfully mussed hair was everywhere—appearing in messy chignons and windswept waves alike.
From Forbes ● Aug. 26, 2014
The herd that gathered in the 19th arrondissement were as elegant as their surroundings, all tailored jackets, chignons and pointed leather boots.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 8, 2012
They wore jewelry made of shell and swans’-down earrings and chignons spiked with eagle feathers.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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