coiffed
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Maybe the old helmets were corny, but they were no worse than the dated bouffant coiffes the maidens now wear, not to speak of the evening gowns, complete with sequins and bugle beads.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hannah More only took to coiffes and wimples in later life; in early days she was fond of splendour, and, as we read, had herself painted in emerald earrings.
From A Book of Sibyls Miss Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs Opie, Miss Austen by Ritchie, Anne Thackeray
Even the coiffes of the women are different here from those worn in other places on the Loire, and in a very distinct way we realize that we have left Touraine and are in Anjou.
From In Château Land by Wharton, Anne Hollingsworth
Far up the darkening road the white coiffes of the women glimmered; the drum-roll softened to a distant humming.
From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
At the inn all rooms were taken; every house had become an inn; barns, stables, granaries had their guests; fishermen’s huts on coast and cliff were bright with coiffes and embroidered jerseys.
From The Maids of Paradise by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)
