(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.