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Definition of Coiffures
1. coiffure [v] - See also: coiffure
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coiffures
Literary usage of Coiffures
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Across Africa by Verney Lovett Cameron, Daniel Oliver (1877)
"Fantastic coiffures.—Personal Adornment. —A Struggle for Precedence.—Curiously-formed
Trees and Excrescences.—Astonishing the Natives.—Adopted Fathers. ..."
2. Costume: Fanciful, Historical, and Theatrical by Eliza Aria, Mrs. Eliza (Davis) Aria (1906)
"It is TWO ITALIAN coiffures. interesting to note that the women of Genoa were
bound by law to wear a dress of plain cloth, but that their undergarments were ..."
3. The Book of Costume: Or, Annals of Fashion: From the Earliest Period to the by Mary Margaret (Stanley) Egerton Wilton, Lady of rank (1846)
"This rivalled the coiffures of the Chinese ladies, and their favourite head-dress
of the ... coiffures ..."
4. Travels in Little-known Parts of Asia Minor by Henry John Van-Lennep (1870)
"Jewels and ornaments — The censer — coiffures — Necklaces — Ear-rings — Ankle-rings —
Nose-rings— Agricultural implements — Plough — Spade — Hoe — Joiner's ..."
5. Dictionnaire D'archéologie égyptienne by Paul Pierret (1875)
"Voyez coiffures, SANDALES. COTON. Malgré le témoignage de Pline (six, 8), on peut
affirmer que le coton, si cultivé par les Egyptiens modernes, ..."
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