What is "chignon"

Usage examples of "chignon".

She had plenty of time, time to lie for ages in the bath, make up her lovely face at her leisure and wind her hair into its intricate chignon before putting on the organza dress.

By accident or by design, slender, curling threads of hair had escaped the loose chignon and gently brushed her forehead, her cheeks, and shimmered in the gaslighted room.

Wednesday came to break the monotony of the days, and since it was a lovely summer morning Beatrice got into a rather nice silky two-piece in a pale pearly pink, brushed her hair into a shining chignon, thrust her feet into high-heeled sandals and got into the elderly Daimler beside her aunt.

Her thin hair, drawn back into a false chignon that did not exactly match, made me actually miserable: We writers sometimes postulate future states of freedom for both sexes, regardless of physical advantage.

She cowered, her eyes down, her terrible unmatched chignon shuddering.

Margaret coiled the braid into a flat chignon, covering the nape of her neck neatly, and pinned it into place.

She had black hair scraped up into an angry-looking chignon and was very bad-tempered when he arrived.

She did her face rapidly, swept her hair tidily into a chignon and went back to join him.

The tall, rangy girl was scuttling down the ward in the direction of the sluice room, and going slowly from bed to bed, turning off lights, smoothing sheets and pausing to speak to the occupants, was the girl whom he had met that morning, very neat in her uniform, her hair smoothed into an unfashionable chignon under her cap, her small waist, nicely accentuating her pretty shape, encircled by its stiff white belt.

She took pains with her hair, winding it into a chignon and fastening the little wreath of silk roses around it.

Beatrice got into one of her pretty summer dresses, wound her hair into a chignon and wandered downstairs, where she found Oliver waiting for her.

On awakening that morning she had made a real Sunday toilette: her superb hair was caught up in a huge chignon which disclosed the whiteness of her neck, and she wore a white flannel lace-trimmed dressing-jacket, which allowed but a little of her bare arms to be seen.

A few shiny strands had come loose from her chignon and curled against the creamy skin of her neck as she bent forward over the keyboard.

She smoothed her hair with a knobby-fingered hand, tucking a loose strand into a disordered chignon before she opened the door a crack.

Clear maternal eyes, neck concealed beneath layers of chin, gray hair done up in a bun, with wisps that had escaped the net chignon, pigeon-breasted, plump forearms with deeply dimpled elbows, wearing a silk dress of purple paisley.