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
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.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2022
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
And the woman wore her hair just as Miss Mortimer did, in a pretty chignon at the base of her neck.
From "The Long-Lost Home" by Maryrose Wood
The women’s cheeks are stained with blush, their hair in chignons.
From New York Times ● Feb. 15, 2023
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
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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