(n.) A close-fitting cap covering the sides of the head, like a small hood without a cape.
(n.) An official headdress, such as that worn by certain judges in England.
(v. t.) To cover or dress with, or as with, a coif.
Example Sentences:
(1) Afternoon Delights doesn't have anything approaching a mission statement – it's just two middle-aged men arsing about, frankly – but its gleeful anarchism can be riotously funny: witness the pair as free runners, declaring "war against the urban environment", or their magnificently coiffed Rock'n'Rollers, with the aid of subtitles, showing off their moves on the streets of Ashford, Kent.
(2) It was easy to digest, easy to remember and, if you didn’t listen, the good guys – represented for my generation by a pursed, pleading and perfectly coiffed Nancy Reagan – had nothing else for you.
(3) So we get male characters covered in body paint, as we might have expected in the late Iron Age; and high-status females wearing coifs and wimples, as they would have done in the 14th and 15th centuries.
(4) Oh hold on, that's suddenly gone off air to be replaced by a piece of cardboard presumably held up by some fashionably-coiffed work experience chump, reading "USA v Algeria coming up".
(5) My colleague Tim Adams, who was writing an article on better potential candidates for the London mayoralty, stood beside me, as we watched the quilted, coiffed godfather of punk, and gawped.
(6) The group of neatly coiffed middle-aged Spanish ladies who had trooped in to Malaga University's sports hall applauded wildly when, to cries of "You can do it!
(7) What started out as an internal Socialist party spat between a provincial politician and the Parisian party machine has developed into an elegantly coiffed cat-fight involving the two women in President François Hollande's embattled domestic life.
(8) The impeccably-coifed rockers from Sheffield opened the ceremony in bombastic style, launching into their hit single R U Mine?
(9) Dressed and coiffed with the precision learned during 25 years as a flight attendant with British Airways, she would flash a smile for the watching cameras.
(10) Fresh from a workout, CJ Wilson trudges through the dimly lit Los Angeles Angels clubhouse in camo stretch pants and a hoodie, looking nothing like the well-coiffed man in the Head & Shoulders commercials .
(11) Today’s problems – the ones to which our well-coiffed City boy is wilfully blind – are not those of the Jarrow protesters.
(12) With a white suit and matching fedora topping his famous carrot-colored coif, Conan O’Brien welcomed viewers on Wednesday night to the first US talkshow to broadcast from Cuba since the embargo began.
(13) And unlike the RATM offensive – which lost some of its rock'n'roll credentials after it emerged that the track was released by Sony, and McElderry's by Cowell's Syco, a Sony subsidiary – the mark of the squarely-coiffed svengali is nowhere to be seen on the track, which will be released on Wall of Sound Records on 13 December.
(14) We struggle to find anyone who’s hipper than coiffed old-schoolers like Wogan, Parkinson and Aspel, but still a showman.
(15) Talking of which, how come the over coiffed homosexualist had his crash on the one day in the century when the entire NHS wasn't on strike?
(16) Jon Bon Jovi completed the challenge on 16 August, donating to ALS research and receiving a bin of iced water over his coiffed head.
(17) Coiffed, trimmed, another vehicle by which the grooming industry has co-opted men and women into petite-bourgeois conformity?
(18) It was a sunny day and, my God, the reflections were bouncing off his gold jewellery and diamond rings and his hair was perfectly coiffed."
(19) Good job last night, Nicola,” shouted one man as supporters mobbed the first minister, their hands holding mobile phones aloft for that closeup moment; a woman near by yelled out: “You were wonderful.” Poised, coiffed and grinning , Sturgeon was in demand for a string of selfies.
(20) She and her co-star, the well-coiffed Brenda Strong, who plays Bobby's new wife, Anne, seem to have been modelled on the political women that American Vogue loves to embrace.
Dress
Definition:
(v. t.) To direct; to put right or straight; to regulate; to order.
(v. t.) To arrange in exact continuity of line, as soldiers; commonly to adjust to a straight line and at proper distance; to align; as, to dress the ranks.
(v. t.) To treat methodically with remedies, bandages, or curative appliances, as a sore, an ulcer, a wound, or a wounded or diseased part.
(v. t.) To adjust; to put in good order; to arrange; specifically: (a) To prepare for use; to fit for any use; to render suitable for an intended purpose; to get ready; as, to dress a slain animal; to dress meat; to dress leather or cloth; to dress or trim a lamp; to dress a garden; to dress a horse, by currying and rubbing; to dress grain, by cleansing it; in mining and metallurgy, to dress ores, by sorting and separating them.
(v. t.) To cut to proper dimensions, or give proper shape to, as to a tool by hammering; also, to smooth or finish.
(v. t.) To put in proper condition by appareling, as the body; to put clothes upon; to apparel; to invest with garments or rich decorations; to clothe; to deck.
(v. t.) To break and train for use, as a horse or other animal.
(v. i.) To arrange one's self in due position in a line of soldiers; -- the word of command to form alignment in ranks; as, Right, dress!
(v. i.) To clothe or apparel one's self; to put on one's garments; to pay particular regard to dress; as, to dress quickly.
(n.) That which is used as the covering or ornament of the body; clothes; garments; habit; apparel.
(n.) A lady's gown; as, silk or a velvet dress.
(n.) Attention to apparel, or skill in adjusting it.
(n.) The system of furrows on the face of a millstone.
Example Sentences:
(1) In this study of ten consecutive patients sustaining molten metal injuries to the lower extremity who were treated with excision and grafting, treatment with compression Unna paste boot was compared with that with conventional dressing.
(2) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(3) I usually use them as a rag with which to clean the toilet but I didn’t have anything else to wear today because I’m so fat.” While this exchange will sound baffling to outsiders, to Brits it actually sounds like this: “You like my dress?
(4) This is a struggle for the survival of our nation.” As ever, after Trump’s media dressing-down, his operation was quick to fit a velvet glove to an iron fist.
(5) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
(6) Then there were the mini-dress-wearing Barclaycard girls whose job was “to help educate and change people’s minds”.
(7) Peroneal nerve palsy may be avoided by careful surgical technique and postoperative dressings.
(8) The Index of Independence in Activities of Daily Living (Index of ADL) is a scale whose grades reflect profiles of behavioral levels of six sociobiological functions, namely, bathing, dressing, toileting, transfer, continence, and feeding.
(9) But it is as a winner of "best dressed" and "most inspiring" awards that she remains well-known.
(10) I would like to add the spirit within the dressing room, it is much better now.
(11) An actor dressed like one of the polar bears that figure in Coke ads limped up, wearing a prosthesis on one paw, a dialysis bag and tubing.
(12) Ease of use has meant that a greater number of patients with superficial burns can be treated as outpatients and many are able to do their own daily dressing change, so fewer attendances at the clinic are needed.
(13) So that you know he's evil, he is dressed like a giant, bedraggled grey duckling, in a fur coat made up of bits of chewed-up wolf.
(14) Schyman comes across like a fusion of Germaine Greer and Ken Livingstone, dressed in Parisian chic with a maroon dress and a colourful scarf.
(15) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
(16) A family who live next door to the Bredon Croft address said Masood used to turn up in Islamic dress and take their neighbours’ children to a mosque, though they did not know which one.
(17) Clare, 17, says her dress was well within guidelines for the event's dress code - it was "fingertip length".
(18) In the HCD group, 66 (86.8%) pressure sores improved compared with 36 (69.2%) pressure sores in the wet-to-dry dressings group.
(19) What was very worrying was at half‑time when you go in the dressing room, I could sense there was no response.
(20) It sells itself to British tourists as a holiday heaven of golden beaches, flamenco dresses and well-stocked sherry bars, but southern Andalucía – home to the Costa del Sol – has now become the focus of worries about the euro.