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He also throws in an allusion to Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” — cue the blond chignon — that does his movie no favors.

The women’s cheeks are stained with blush, their hair in chignons.

She wore a flowing, bright yellow dress, and her blonde hair was perfectly coiffed in a thick chignon.

Delicate of frame and strong of stamina, with thick eyeglasses and long corn-silk hair pulled into a chignon, she resembled an unlikely hybrid of the poet Marianne Moore and the golden-age movie star Loretta Young.

Her blond hair was usually ironed straight or pulled back into a messy chignon.