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UK
/kˈɔɪf/
]
[ US /ˈkwɑf/ ]
[ US /ˈkwɑf/ ]
NOUN
- the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)
- a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law
VERB
- cover with a coif
-
arrange attractively
dress my hair for the wedding
How To Use coif In A Sentence
- Without iridescent blue eye shadow, an effulgent outfit or a hair-sprayed coif, she looks normal.
- She tells me she is just back from the hairdresser and the coiffure will revert to ragged ringlets as soon as it hits rain.
- Her coif was the tall medieval hennin of Plougastel, a flood of lace falling from its summit. A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
- a scarlet "whittle" over all this motley finery; with a "outwork quoyf or ciffer" (New England French for coiffure) with "long wings" at the side, and a silk or tiffany hood on her drooping head, -- Priscilla in this attire were pretty indeed. Sabbath in Puritan New England
- The scene of the coiffing is a print of Hogarth's translated to the stage; Rofrano's name "Octavian Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers
- He found her in a white cymar of silk lined with furs, her little feet unstockinged and hastily thrust into slippers; her unbraided hair escaping from under her midnight coif, with little array but her own loveliness, rather augmented than diminished by the grief which she felt at the approaching moment of separation. Kenilworth
- He is cute, but that coif is definitely not working.
- Saddled with the most unfortunate perm in the history of the coiffeur, she still manages to create an incredibly believable teen protagonist, filled with instantly recognizable angst and insecurity.
- As he entered the stage with coiffured hair and a dapper pin-striped suit, I didn't know what to expect, but he was amazing and had the entire audience, blue rinse brigade and all, on their feet applauding his efforts.
- Boynet, whom I mentioned above, is accoutered with the coiffure called piked horns, which, if there were any signs in The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2