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coif

[kwahf, koif] / kwɑf, kɔɪf /


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That afternoon in 2025, with his shellacked coif flapping against his bronzed forehead in the wind, the president held up hastily-assembled poster boards bearing the names of the world’s countries and territories.

From Salon ● Apr. 5, 2026

His famous coif might be styled to look some version of presentable on TV, but it’s not all that surprising that it looks a little thin from below.

From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2025

Hochman sat in front of an antiseptic white background, well-lit in a pressed dark suit and close-trimmed coif.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2024

The appearance of Bankman-Fried, who sat with his lawyers, has changed dramatically recently as he has lost weight and trimmed his well-known wild coif into a tightly cropped look more traditional among financial professionals.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023

A bun, which he had fashioned out of an un-even coif and tried to angle forward, did not hide the fact that his hairline was in full retreat.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

By the early aughts, erstwhile edgy rock stars like Courtney Love and Nina Gordon swapped their torn fishnets and rumpled slip dresses for French manicures and blown-out coifs.

From Salon ● Feb. 19, 2026

She was uncomfortable being tall, and the long, bouncing, curly brown hair that has become one of the most recognizable coifs in women’s basketball wasn’t so admired in high school.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 27, 2022

K-pop’s influence is apparent in its tightly choreographed music videos and highly stylized coifs.

From New York Times ● Aug. 12, 2021

The sisters epitomized a 1950s sensibility that held up a standard of unreal perfection, wearing identical coifs, dresses and smiles, moving with synchronized precision and blending voices in wholesome songs for simpler times.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 1, 2021

It gives me a twinge of sadness, of missing my mother, to see their colorful petticoats—indigo blue and saffron yellow—and white coifs.

From "Blood on the River" by Elisa Carbone

Timotheé Chalamet's pale visage and perfectly coifed curls may be the face of the "Dune" franchise, but another powerhouse has emerged.

From Salon ● Mar. 9, 2024

And also that Michael and his immaculately coifed bandmate Andrew Ridgeley really knew how and when to break up a band.

From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023

Each of the three lids sports neatly coifed lawns with dense rings of decorative planting — Japanese snowball, David viburnum, cranesbill geraniums, Chinese barberry.

From Seattle Times ● May 9, 2023

But she also walks into every room with her perfectly coifed head held high.

From Salon ● May 6, 2023

Tee cringed and then rolled her eyes beneath her perfectly coifed pompadour.

From "Shadowshaper" by Daniel José Older

She singled out the city’s dozens of tusi banquets—dinner theater shows sold as exotic cultural experiences, with slickly coiffed young Tibetan men wiggling across the stage to hip-hop beats for an appreciative, largely female audience.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 5, 2026

It seems unlikely that the coiffed and polished Harp would freely choose to forgo a real suitcase in order to carry an oversized sack like a disorganized college kid.

From Salon ● Sep. 16, 2026

But the runup has been dominated by the off-stage antics of the coiffed contestants and their Thai hosts, escalating into a feminist firestorm drawing the attention of Mexico's president.

From Barron's ● Nov. 6, 2025

The genial, dapper TV host with the gleaming smile and perfectly coiffed hair had hosted two local TV game shows in L.A. before going national with “What’s This Song?”

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2025

He was dressed, brushed, coiffed, and blow-dried not just to be seen but to be looked at.

From "The View From Saturday" by E.L. Konigsburg

I pulled out my recorder as her blond curls bounced with the effortless ease of a superstar whose hairstylist had spent hours coiffing each individual curl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 23, 2021

If the world was really ending, it would probably sound a bit like your post-shower coiffing routine.

From Slate ● Dec. 13, 2018

That was clear as Keisel plowed through the crowd with a microphone labeled “Head and Shoulders,” and asked deadpan questions of the various Denver Broncos and Seattle Seahawks about their coiffing habits.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 29, 2014

It's no wonder animals with names like Beast or Chappie get the farm version of luxury spa pampering - shelter from summer heat, baths with pricey shampoos and careful coiffing with electric razors.

From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2013

But often the problem was with the inmates—they could take forever with showering, shaving, and coiffing, trying to get together the perfect self-presentation.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover

Earring Magic Ken was Mattel’s attempt at making Ken cool by coifing his hair, piercing his left ear and adding a controversial necklace.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2023

He looked coldly on the twenty-one celebrated pictures in which Le Brun had represented on the coifing of the gallery of Versailles the exploits of Lewis.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 5 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay

None of the daughters are so fair as this, Nor stand with such a grace majestical; She in her locks is like the travelling sun, Setting, all clad in coifing clouds of gold.

From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow




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