(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.
Style
Definition:
(v. t.) An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded, for the purpose of making erasures by smoothing the wax.
(v. t.) Hence, anything resembling the ancient style in shape or use.
(v. t.) A pen; an author's pen.
(v. t.) A sharp-pointed tool used in engraving; a graver.
(v. t.) A kind of blunt-pointed surgical instrument.
(v. t.) A long, slender, bristlelike process, as the anal styles of insects.
(v. t.) The pin, or gnomon, of a dial, the shadow of which indicates the hour. See Gnomon.
(v. t.) The elongated part of a pistil between the ovary and the stigma. See Illust. of Stamen, and of Pistil.
(v. t.) Mode of expressing thought in language, whether oral or written; especially, such use of language in the expression of thought as exhibits the spirit and faculty of an artist; choice or arrangement of words in discourse; rhetorical expression.
(v. t.) Mode of presentation, especially in music or any of the fine arts; a characteristic of peculiar mode of developing in idea or accomplishing a result.
(v. t.) Conformity to a recognized standard; manner which is deemed elegant and appropriate, especially in social demeanor; fashion.
(v. t.) Mode or phrase by which anything is formally designated; the title; the official designation of any important body; mode of address; as, the style of Majesty.
(v. t.) A mode of reckoning time, with regard to the Julian and Gregorian calendars.
(v. t.) To entitle; to term, name, or call; to denominate.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the 89 cases of sudden and unexpected death before the age of 50 (preceded by some modification of the patient's life style in 29 cases), 11 cases were symptomatic and 5 were transplanted with a good result.
(2) More disturbing than his ideas was Malema's style and tone.
(3) In a poll before the debate, 48% predicted that Merkel, who will become Europe's longest serving leader if re-elected on 22 September, would emerge as the winner of the US-style debate, while 26% favoured Steinbruck, a former finance minister who is known for his quick-wit and rhetorical skills, but sometimes comes across as arrogant.
(4) Correlations between measures of learning style and academic performance yielded low, nonsignificant positive correlations and were found to be inadequate predictors of academic performance.
(5) To a large extent, the failure has been a consequence of a cold war-style deadlock – Russia and Iran on one side, and the west and most of the Arab world on the other – over the fate of Bashar al-Assad , a negotiating gap kept open by force in the shape of massive Russian and Iranian military support to keep the Syrian regime in place.
(6) Similarly, while those in the City continue to adopt a Millwall FC-style attitude of "no one likes us, we don't care", there is no incentive for them to heed the advice and demands of the public, who those in the Square Mile prefer to dismiss as intemperate ignoramuses.
(7) True Love Impulse Body Spray, Simple Kind to Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser and VO5 Styling Mousse Extra Body marked double-digit price rises on average across the four chains.
(8) 2) Trebling of alcohol treatment places to match the expansion in drug treatment, and US-style street pastor teams using vetted ex-offenders to reach disaffected young people.
(9) Portugal's slide towards a Greek-style second bailout accelerated after its principal private lenders indicated that they were growing weary of assurances from Lisbon that it could get on top of the country's debts.
(10) ICR 12, one of a panel of rat monoclonal antibodies recognizing the external domain of the human c-erb B2 proto-oncogene product, (Styles, 1990) was chosen as a candidate for radiolabeling with 124I for positron emission tomography of selected patients with breast cancer.
(11) The video is done in the style of a news report for Russia's Kremlin-controlled Channel One channel, which normally praises Putin in every broadcast.
(12) PES scores were inversely related to reporting symptoms and unrelated to measures of response style.
(13) Group psychotherapy is a treatment modality used to assist patients in learning how they are perceived, what interactions and communication styles are effective, and which behaviors are acceptable.
(14) It was suggested that treatment outcome in a multidisciplinary pain clinic is more immediately related to patients' coping styles and their choice of pain treatment modalities than to their demographics and personalities.
(15) But similar accusations have been levelled by Anders Fogh Rasmussen , the secretary general of Nato, and by pro-shale officials in Romania and Lithuania , as cold war-style tensions have ratcheted.
(16) Trousers were cropped or rolled at the ankle, a styling trick that is emerging as a trend across the shows.
(17) While there are many potential causative factors, erroneous concepts of IOL positioning and design appear to have led to PBK with many iris-supported and anterior chamber lens styles.
(18) Valls immediately attacked Hamon as an idealist who couldn’t win the presidential election and styled himself as the voice of the serious left in government.
(19) Napthine chose not to directly criticise Tony Abbott – it’s not his style – but the coolness was clear.
(20) #WhitePrideWorldWide.” Anonymous replied in true vigilante style on Sunday, by taking control of the KKK Twitter account and replacing the logo with its own.