2. Verb. (third-person singular of coiffe) ¹
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Definition of Coiffes
1. coiffe [v] - See also: coiffe
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coiffes
Literary usage of Coiffes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1885)
"The sisters and nuns who had had the teaching of so many of the children were
keeping guard over their flock from beneath their bent white coiffes as they ..."
2. A Book of Sibyls: Mrs. Barbauld, Miss Edgeworth, Mrs. Opie, Miss Austen by Anne Thackeray Ritchie (1883)
"Grand ladies in broad loops and feathers, or graceful and charming as nymphs in
muslin folds, with hanging clouds of hair; or again, in modest coiffes ..."
3. An Essay on the Use of Chlorurets of Oxide of Sodium and of Lime, as by Thomas Alcock (1827)
"... le Prefet de Police, et ce Magistrat a ordonné qn' il fut sur le champ
confectionné un certain nombre de ces coiffes ce qui a été mis à exécution. ..."
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