Later developments of the chignon are ridiculed by Sambourne in 1871.
These two natives had their hair tied up in a kind of chignonat the back of the head, the hair being dragged back off the forehead from infancy.
The back division is combed back, and after being twisted into a compact mass, is tied in a chignon upon the crown of the head.
It is dressed much like that of a Chinese woman except that it is twisted and tied up in a chignon on the crown of the head.
In men the chignon is usually lower, being about half way between the crown and the nape of the neck.
She had on an old black dress with flounces, and a red ribbon round her neck; and her hair was done up carefully, the chignon being enclosed in a blue silk net.
She was still staggering when another caught her from the side, hitting her left ear and drenching her chignon which then came unwound into a limp, bedraggled string of hair.
And Gervaise was also angered by Nana's exhausted slumber, when after one of her adventures, she slept till noon, with her chignon undone and still full of hair pins, looking so white and breathing so feebly that she seemed to be dead.
It was but the other day that we saw an old woman with grey hair wearing a little hat placed coquettishly upon her head, with a large chignon of grey hair filling up the back!
Those buxon old ladies who like to be gay, At the change in the fashions are out of the way, For with wig and chignon they all come the grand, Tho’ their heads are as bald as the palm of my hand.
Any Milliner, dress maker, or fast young girl who may be seen walking with a chignon larger than a porter’s knot, and over 12 pounds in weight, she must pay a fine of 5s.
Monsieur will not recognize her with a new chignon and in a bonnet of mine.
Mrs. Marchbanks actually walked down stairs with herchignon in one hand and the Sèvres cup in the other.
It would serve you right if they bayonetted you;" and she added emphasis to her expostulation by planting her chignon between my shoulder-blades with terrific force.
Once, about midnight, she awoke me by her snoring, but I gave the old gal's chignon a hitch, and it was all right again.
She had taken that chignon for a pillow, and fastened it to the back of the seat.
I had a capital pony, and had won the race, my chignon and hat blowing off on the way, when up comes an indignant gentleman, to accuse me of insulting his wife.
On the bed lay stretched a gray mass, but only the ruddy chignon was distinguishable and a pale blotch which might be the face.
Hurriedly and without changing her dress she had her hair done up and stuck white roses in her chignon and at her bosom.
Even Mrs. French was becoming courageous; and Arabella was forgetting the place where her chignon ought to have been.
Then it occurred to him that if, after such a promise, he were to confide to her his feeling that the chignon which she wore was ugly and unbecoming, she would probably be induced to change her mode of head-dress.
It was not that the chignon was in itself a thing of beauty, but that it imparted so unmistakable an air of fashion!
But the face which is beneath that chignon and that hat?
If that chignon and those heels had been taken off, the figure which would have remained would have been that too often of a puny girl of sixteen.
The yellow chignon has vanished round a corner and the energetic old woman has drawn her ex-adorer down on a bench in the meagre shade of a watering-place promenade, upon a grass-green bench under gray-brown trees.
My dear colonel," said the young man, quietly, "I am very sorry to tell you that I find one chignon very much the same as another.
My dear boy," he replied, "one chignon is just like another; which do you mean?
Shtcherbatsky told the old maid of honor, Madame Nikolaeva, that he meant to put the crown on Kitty's chignon for luck.
Enter FANNY, dressed as before, but with large, red chignon on her head.
Chignon is right in point of taste, though not quite so happy in his allusions as he is sometimes.
Do you recognize the coiffure you are so fond of, the chignon high, and the neck bare?
The mirror on the ceiling, too, reflected the top of her head, with its tightly rolled chignon and the little bands lowered over her temples.
It seems a strange incongruity to see a beard and mustache, a comb and a chignon on the same head.
The people of this region are much more vigorous and manly than the Singalese of the coast, and the chignon and comb seem still more absurd when worn by this energetic, war-like race.
The Dame from her visit returning home late, Met this funny couple outside her own gate, And heartily laugh'd, when she saw her dear cat, Dressed up in a cloak and a chignon and hat.
The two partings on the top of the head and the chignon never vary.
The pointed bodice displayed her shoulders in a fashion still beloved of royal ladies, and her soft golden-brown hair was dressed in a high chignon with a long curl descending over the left side of her bust.
One of the other women ran into Masters' bedroom where they had left their wraps and emerged in a few moments with a lifted chignon and a straggling curl.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chignon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: braid; coil; fall; knot; pigtail; plait; queue; rat; switch; tail; topknot; twist
