coiffured

English

Adjective

coiffured (comparative more coiffured, superlative most coiffured)

1. (of a person or animal's hair) Styled; Having been arranged and cut, especially when in an elaborate style.
   • 2013, Bob Fore, Cajun Flight, page 181:

     The elderly, snow-white-coiffured lady bolted before the group's self-appointed leader could perform his opening statement.

   • 2021, Harriet Kline ·, This Shining Life:

     He thought she looked like some coiffured dog, with her foreign hair and the bright red beads at her neck, her jowls hanging down.

   • 2021, Alan Booth, Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan:

     Inside the pavilion, identically clad, identically coiffured young ladies sport small green feathers in Tyrolean hats and a fairy with pointed ears made out of laser beams explains what we are about to see.

2. (by extension, figurative) Resulting from elaborate training or construction.
   • 1999 May, Peter Frederiksen, “Top Shelf”, in Yachting, volume 185, number 5, page 91:

     Liz Dalton Interiors called for spectacular treatments like crown moldings and coiffured overheads which Rybovich built from solid teak.

   • 2001, Joseph W. Esherick, Remaking the Chinese City, page 153:

     One aesthetic feature of the interior prominently displayed in Zhongguo jianzhu was the coiffured ceiling .

   • 2013, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Trevor Wiggins, The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures, page 347:

     Interrogating coiffured musical learnings is much less about uncovering particular truth than generating multiplicities of thinking and enacting by observing learning experiences of a young child, while reflecting on the realities of my own lived and living pathways.

Derived terms

• uncoiffured

 

Verb

coiffured

1. simple past and past participle of coiffure