“Coffee, the favorite drink of the civilized world.” – Thomas Jefferson, third president of the United States
COIFFURE
hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif
(noun) the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman’s hair)
dress, arrange, set, do, coif, coiffe, coiffure
(verb) arrange attractively; “dress my hair for the wedding”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
coiffure (countable and uncountable, plural coiffures)
hairstyle
Verb
coiffure (third-person singular simple present coiffures, present participle coiffuring, simple past and past participle coiffured)
(transitive) to style or arrange hair
Anagrams
• coiffeur
Source: Wiktionary
Coif"fure, n. Etym: [F., fr. coiffer. See Coif.]
Definition: A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair. Addison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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OSTENSIBLE
(adjective) appearing as such but not necessarily so; “for all his apparent wealth he had no money to pay the rent”; “the committee investigated some apparent discrepancies”; “the ostensible truth of their theories”; “his seeming honesty”
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