coiffure
Other forms: coiffures; coiffured; coiffuring
Coiffure is a fancy French word for hairdo. If you spend a lot of time working on your coiffure, you spend a lot of time in front of the mirror fixing your hair.
The word coiffure originally meant hairstylist, now it means the style. The word implies an elaborate style, not just a regular haircut. A beehive hairdo, for instance, would be rightly called a coiffure. A military-style buzz cut is just a trim. The word can be shortened to coif, but be careful as this word has other meanings as well.
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the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)synonyms: coif, hair style, hairdo, hairstyletypes:beehivea hairdo resembling a beehivebouffanta woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearancehaircutthe style in which hair has been cutboba hair style for women and children; a short haircut all aroundwavea hairdo that creates undulations in the hairchignona roll of hair worn at the nape of the neckmarcela hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling ironpageboya smooth hair style with the ends of the hair curled inwardpompadoura hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the foreheadponytaila hair style that draws the hair back so that it hangs down in back of the head like a pony's tailroacha roll of hair brushed back from the foreheadscalp locka long tuft of hair left on top of the shaven headthatchhair resembling thatched roofing materialmulleta hairstyle in which the hair is left long at the back but cut short on the top and sidesfinger wavea wave made with the fingersqueuea braid of hair at the back of the headpigtaila plait of braided hairbrush cuta short haircut with hairs standing up like a brushmohawk, mohawk haircuthaircut in which the head is shaved except for a band of hair down the middle of the scalptype of:haira covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss
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arrange attractively
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