coiffeuse

Example Sentences

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She uses cosmetics only occasionally and does her own hair�though she admits that she is encouraging a romance between a Sikkimese youth and a Calcutta hairdresser in the hope of importing the kingdom's first coiffeuse.

From Time Magazine Archive

"Vossignoria will put on the blue cr�pe-de-chine gown," said Teresa; "and I will order the coiffeuse for six o'clock."

From The Devourers by Chartres, Annie Vivanti

Koto had a rival at the beginning of her professional career—a woman of considerable skill as a coiffeuse, but of malignant disposition, named Jin.

From Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series by Hearn, Lafcadio

By this means, it will have the only merit its length and dulness can aspire to, that of assisting your coiffeuse to procure you six good naps of sleep.

From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson

I often help Mother fix her hair when she's going out, and she calls me her little coiffeuse.

From A harum-scarum schoolgirl by Campbell, John