coiffured
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Styled; Having been arranged and cut, especially when in an elaborate style.
Of a person or animal's hair
- The elderly, snow-white-coiffured lady bolted before the group's self-appointed leader could perform his opening statement.2013, Bob Fore, Cajun Flight, page 181:
- 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, Harriet Kline ·, This Shining Life:
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- 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.2021, Alan Booth, Looking for the Lost: Journeys Through a Vanishing Japan:
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Broadly, Figuratively Resulting from elaborate training or construction.
- Liz Dalton Interiors called for spectacular treatments like crown moldings and coiffured overheads which Rybovich built from solid teak.1999 May, Peter Frederiksen, “Top Shelf”, in Yachting, volume 185, number 5, page 91:
- One aesthetic feature of the interior prominently displayed in Zhongguo jianzhu was the coiffured ceiling .2001, Joseph W. Esherick, Remaking the Chinese City, page 153:
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- 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.2013, Patricia Shehan Campbell, Trevor Wiggins, The Oxford Handbook of Children's Musical Cultures, page 347:
- Derived terms
- uncoiffured