chignon

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Ms Ardern wore a fitted ivory dress by designer Juliette Hogan - who is reportedly a close friend of the ex-PM - and a long veil clipped onto a chignon up-do hairstyle.

From BBC • Jan. 13, 2024

Delicate of frame and strong of stamina, with thick eyeglasses and long corn-silk hair pulled into a chignon, she resembled an unlikely hybrid of the poet Marianne Moore and the golden-age movie star Loretta Young.

From New York Times • Dec. 31, 2022

Her blond hair was usually ironed straight or pulled back into a messy chignon.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 3, 2022

But also, because Alexia has a chignon constantly — that's where she puts her pick.

From Salon • Oct. 5, 2021

Her hair is middle-parted, gathered into a chignon, and she wears stylishly narrow tortoiseshell glasses.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri