coiffure

1. 1.

   arrange attractively

   “dress my hair for the wedding”

   Synonymsdressarrangesetdocoifcoiffe

   Broadergroom

   Narrowerbobwave

Other forms of coiffure

plural

coiffures·

past tense

coiffured·

present participle

coiffuring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about coiffure

What does coiffure mean?

coiffure means "the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in coiffure?

coiffure has 2 syllables: coif-fure. The stress falls on "coif".

What is another word for coiffure?

Close synonyms include hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coif, dress. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is coiffure a common word?

coiffure is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.