chignon
Example Sentences
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Her hair was pulled back in a chignon, and she wore a smart tailored navy suit.
From Literature
She’d kept it pinned in the same neat chignon she wore in the theater.
From Literature
And the woman wore her hair just as Miss Mortimer did, in a pretty chignon at the base of her neck.
From Literature
With one hand she smoothed her dark blond hair, which was arranged in an elegant chignon at the nape of her neck.
From Literature
He also throws in an allusion to Hitchcock’s “Vertigo” — cue the blond chignon — that does his movie no favors.
From New York Times
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