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  • La premiere fois, c'etait en 1848, elle s'etait coiffee de travers: je suis bien heureux de saluer aujourd'hui votre excellence, quand elle a mis son chapeau droit. '

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 1887

  • She was wont to fill the streets and promenades, especially on _festa_ days, dressed _a quatre epingles_, powdered and rouged and _coiffee_ as for a ball, and with or without a veil.

    The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II W. H. Wilkins 1882

  • Zubaydah (ii. 369) is coiffee with a European coronet.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

  • When Monsieur Bayou told Genifrede that she was well coiffee, or that he wished she would show the other girls among the house-negroes how to make their Sunday gowns sit like hers, Genifrede invariably appeared not to hear, and often walked away in the midst of the speech; and then her mother could not but wonder how she would conduct herself, whenever the day should come that must come, when (as there was no one on the Breda estate whom Genifrede liked, or would associate with) Monsieur Bayou should bring some one to their cottage, and desire Genifrede to marry him.

    The Hour and the Man, An Historical Romance Harriet Martineau 1839

  • La premiere fois, c’etait en 1848, elle s’etait coiffee de travers: je suis bien heureux de saluer aujourd’hui votre excellence, quand elle a mis son chapeau droit.’

    Memoir of Fleeming Jenkin 2005

  • The old Arab minaret is a plain cylindrical or polygonal tower, without balcony or stages, widely different from the Turkish, modern Egyptian, and Hijazi combinations of tube and prism, happily compared by a French traveller to “une chandelle coiffee d’un eteignoir.”

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

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