coiffure

UK: /kwɑːˈfjʊə^r/ US: /kwɑˈfjʊr/ ,(kwä fyŏŏr′; Fr. kwa fyr′)

Inflections of 'coiffure' (v): (⇒ conjugate)

coiffures

v 3rd person singular

coiffuring

v pres p

coiffured

v past

coiffured

v past p

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2025

coif•fure /kwɑˈfyʊr/   n., pl. -fures, v., -fured, -fur•ing. 
n. [countable]

1. Clothing, Foreign Terms a style of arranging the hair.

v. [~ + object]

2. Clothing to arrange (the hair) in a coiffure:
   They coiffured her hair.

coif•fur•ist, n. [countable]

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025

coif•fure  (kwä fyŏŏr′; Fr. kwa fyr′), n., pl. -fures (-fyŏŏrz′; Fr. -fyr′), v., -fured  (-fyŏŏrd′), -fur•ing (-fyŏŏr′ing).

 

n. 

1. Clothing, Foreign Terms a style of arranging or combing the hair.
2. Foreign Terms, Clothing a head covering;
   headdress.

v.t. 

3. Clothing to provide with a coiffure.

• French, equivalent. to coiff(er) to dress the hair (see coif¹) + -ure -ure
• 1625–35

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::

coiffure / kwɑːˈfjʊə kwafyr/ noun

1. a hairstyle
2. an obsolete word for headdress

verb

1. (transitive) to dress or arrange (the hair)