coiffeuse

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When Meredith Blunt, coiffeuse extraordinaire, comes up with the ultimate way to drive the gray away, what she doesn't know is that her latest client is Medusa in mortal guise.

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  • When Meredith Blunt, coiffeuse extraordinaire, comes up with the ultimate way to drive the gray away, what she doesn't know is that her latest client is Medusa in mortal guise. —  EVIL EDITOR
  • "I often help Mother fix her hair when she's going out, and she calls me her little _coiffeuse_. —  A harum-scarum schoolgirl
  • Parisian coiffeuse is the art of the kamiyui. —  Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
  • VIRAG: Number two on the other hand, she of the cherry rouge and coiffeuse white, whose hair owes not a little to our tribal elixir of gopherwood, is in walking costume and tightly staysed by her sit, I should opine. —  Ulysses
  • Such absolutely straight dark hair as that of most Japanese women might seem, to Occidental ideas at least, ill-suited to the highest possibilities of the art of the coiffeuse. —  Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series
 

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  1. French, feminine of coiffeur, coiffeur; see coiffeur.
 

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