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- noun Plural form of
coiffe . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
coiffe .
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Examples
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The Imbecilic Utterances (or Why is every man's burden the heaviest?) 2010
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It was a sea of color under the August sun, and the white coiffes of the women were like flocks of snowy doves.
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At the inn all rooms were taken; every house had become an inn; barns, stables, granaries had their guests; fishermen's huts on coast and cliff were bright with coiffes and embroidered jerseys.
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The white bits of paper fluttered wide and disappeared in the sea of white Breton head-dresses; there was a rhythmic clatter of wooden shoes, an undulation of snowy coiffes, then a low murmur as the people slowly read the circulars aloud, their musical monotone accompanying the strident nasal voice of Byram, who stood on the tarnished band-wagon shouting his crowd around him.
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Far up the darkening road the white coiffes of the women glimmered; the drum-roll softened to a distant humming.
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And the children, in their white coiffes and tiny wooden shoes, moved round and round the circle, in the middle of which a little lad and a little lass of Paradise stood motionless, hand clasping hand.
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The air was filled with the starched rustle of white coiffes and stiff collarettes; a low, incessant clatter of sabots sounded from gallery to arena; gusts of breathless whispering passed like capricious breezes blowing, then died out in the hush which fell as our band-master, McCadger, raised his wand and the band burst into "Dixie."
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The town had filled within a day or two; the Paradise coiffe was not the only coiffe to be seen in the square; there was the delicate-winged head-dress of Faöuet, the beautiful coiffes of
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Even the _coiffes_ of the women are different here from those worn in other places on the Loire, and in a very distinct way we realize that we have left Touraine and are in Anjou.
In Château Land Anne Hollingsworth Wharton 1886
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The wind worried everybody; dresses and skirts, bonnets and _coiffes_, were similarly tossed about mercilessly.
An Iceland Fisherman Pierre Loti 1886
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