coiffeur

• “Mademoiselle Zélie St. Pierre, on this particular Thursday, even assumed a "robe de soie," deemed in economical Labassecour an article of hazardous splendour and luxury; nay, it was remarked that she sent for a "coiffeur" to dress her hair that morning; there were pupils acute enough to discover that she had bedewed her handkerchief and her hands with a new and fashionable perfume.”

  Villette

• “Bear Stearns, too, had an in-house stylist note to self: investment bank coiffeur may not be the most stable gig, and this year, Wall Street barber Salvatore Anazalone is working out of a temporary shop inside Goldman Sachs's headquarters while the hotel housing his permanent shop undergoes renovations.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Hairy Week for Wall Street

• “All were dressed intriguingly (by Mr. Happel and Rustam Khamdamov) to indicate everything from an innocent young man in a sailor suit (the central Robert Fairchild) to nymphlike mermaids whose slicked-back coiffeur-like caps suggested artfully styled seafoam.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Two Newly Built Ballets

• “References: la politesse (f) = politeness, courtesy; le coiffeur (la coiffeuse) = hairdresser; pour le travail?”

  French Word-A-Day:

• “The problem that covering this item that's absent from l'affaire coiffeur is that people would have to confront the utter bankruptcy of the whole "death tax" paradigm.”

  Big News Orgs Begin Picking Up Story Of Iowa Woman Snubbed By Rudy Campaign

• “I wish he'd take a note outta Cipo's book and hire a personal hairdresser/coiffeur-est to purty his ragged ass up for the post sprint interview.”

  Riding Balls Out: The Haters and the Hated

• “So when a toxic food has shriveled our liver, or having a baby has reduced our heart function, or we have damaged an artery by overreacting to a sloppy coiffeur, stem cells come to the rescue to rebuild us as good as we were before.”

  Simon & Schuster: You Staying Young

• “Monsieur Jean – coiffeur – displays more than 50 road signs from around the world.”

  The Friday Fillip: A Slaw Six — Slaw

• “Vendredi avant d'aller chez le coiffeur (L Powaaaa) je suis passé chez ma patronne pour lui remettre une lettre dans laquelle se trouvaient plein de choses que je voulais lui dire et que si j'avais essayé de le dire de vive voix je serais certainement tombé dans les pommes a cause de trops grandes emotions!”

  pinku-tk Diary Entry

• “She took complete charge of everything, telling the receptionist that I was David Armitage, and that I had been booked in for an all-afternoon special, including ‘a stint with the coiffeur’.”

  Simon & Schuster: Temptation

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