The square face, the large eyes, the coiffure and the long symmetrically arranged beard here seen, all being prominent features in Assyrian representations of kings and potentates.
A head-dress, in the style called the coiffure Italleone, is of bows of cerulean blue velvet mingled with strings of pearls: on each side, ends of blue velvet edged with aiguillettes of pearls.
In head-dresses, feathers form the most elegant and fashionable coiffure for full evening dress.
Her coiffure was a tissue of lace and gold, and she wore on her neck six strings of magnificent pearls which hung down over her waist.
She had a large, square, middle-aged face, with a massive projecting nose and little greenish eyes, the whole surmounted by a lofty and elaborate coiffure of a curiously improbable shade of orange.
An enormous Sunday paper concealed all but the extreme pinnacle of her coiffure from the outer world.
She looked up from the page with a histrionic movement of the head; her orange coiffure nodded portentously.
Priscilla turned her head in his direction; the monumental coiffure nodded exorbitantly at her slightest movement.
On the day of the marriage he appeared in the woman's apartments and gave orders in the most imperative manner, that his niece and not his daughter should don the marriage coiffure and the wedding dress and mount the nuptial platform.
There was a coiffure of straight hair down to the shoulders or to the breasts.
So that beautiful, scented, shining coiffure was only brushed out once a month!
The immense coiffure of shining black hair of the Chinese girl did not lend itself to any Western hat.
Perhaps, after all, a coiffure that never detained its owner at night except once a month might have its advantages.
Grizel leant her head on his shoulder with a forgetfulness of coiffurewhich in itself would have raised his apprehension.
However indecisive the last-mentioned picture may be in regard to the coiffure of the ancient Sikyatki women, plate CXXIX, a, affords still more conclusive evidence.
It was suggested to me by one of the Hopi that this string was part of the coiffure of an Awatobi maid, and that it was probably used to tie up her hair in whorls above the ears, as is still the Hopi custom.
Her head fell suddenly forward in her arms, pushing the elaborate coiffure awry, and beneath the blue-checked apron her shoulders heaved.
From the room adjoining Mrs. Binswanger leaned a crumpled coiffure through the frame of the open door: "Simon, I got here that red woolen undershirt.
He also requested that he might see my dress so as to make his coiffure "harmoniser avec l'ensemble.
He is here supping and living at the hotel with all our suite, and sent word to me this morning that he was at my disposition to make me a "coiffure de circonstance" for the night journey.
I fancy Philippe had made a sort of tower on the top of my head, but he again assured me I must have a "coiffure de circonstance.
All the Russian women wear their National coiffure at the Coronation, the Kakoshnik.
Every tribe has a distinct and unchanging fashion for dressing the hair; and so elaborate is the coiffure that hair-dressing is reduced to a science.
European ladies would be startled at the fact, that to perfect the coiffure of a man requires a period of from eight to ten years!
She was willing to bear pain for the sake of appearing well, but when she looked in the glass she thought that she had never seen anything so hideous as the coiffure that the maid had arranged with such care.
Had there been time she would have pulled the coiffure down, and indeed she was ready to cry with vexation, but she did not really dare to disarrange it now, for she dreaded the Emperor's ridicule.
She wore the same dress, the same coiffure which she had worn the last Sunday, when after the mass he had gone to Versailles to drive.
But Marie Antoinette did not raise her hand to receive it, but shook her head as if in refusal, and yet with so eager a motion that her elaborate coiffure fairly trembled.
And what kind of a coiffure is that which, invented by a queen, is baptized with a fantastic name, and carried through Paris, France, and all Europe?
Neither the cheap hat nor her demoded coiffure could hide the satiny luster of her black hair.
She will wear her famous coiffure surmounted by the tiara.
You will merely stumble in the dark and manage your elbow so awkwardly that Mrs. Rockerbilt's coiffure will be entirely disarranged by it.
After this exordium, he set himself to criticise thecoiffure of the Queen, on account of the coloured knots that he had remarked in it.
The King was the first to congratulate her on it; all the courtiers applauded it, and this coiffure of the chase became the fashion of the day.
The glossy mass of her jet hair had been built into a coiffure of stately and becoming grandeur, into which diamond-headed pins were stuck until the whole scintillated as the stars in heaven upon a moonless night.
It was light in fabric, it was bright with jet, and a couple of handsome black plumes fell over the coiffure at the back.
At the end of the room opposite the windows a woman in black, with coiffure à la Marcel, sat at a white-enamelled desk working with a ledger.
With denuded brows and changed coiffure surely the Japanese Hymen demands no more sacrifices at his shrine?
First, then, the maiden wears a high coiffure that always serves as a sacred symbol of her virginity.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "coiffure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: barber; coif; headdress; natural; permanent; process; shingle; trim; wave
