The coif was a ubiquitous white skullcap worn throughout the Middle Ages. From Wordnik.com. [All Categories Featured Content - Associated Content] Reference
A lady wore a close-fitting white linen cap, called a coif, to cover her hair. From Wordnik.com. [History of American Women] Reference
Hairspray-attracted every imaginable kind of coif, all getting a little higher and harder as the raves poured in. From Wordnik.com. [Village Voice - The most recent 10 stories] Reference
The guy with the perfect coif and false eyelashes?. From Wordnik.com. [Ricochet]
With a quick gesture she whipped off her white coif. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
I've never met another woman who actually liked her coif. From Wordnik.com. [Crazy for Keratin] Reference
BEHAR: How do you have time to coif and put eye makeup on?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 3, 2009] Reference
Her face, beneath her coif of white hair, was deeply purpled. From Wordnik.com. [Ask the Cards a Question]
Are you watching the Battle, or do you just turn your head and coif?. From Wordnik.com. [Watercooler: Bad Hair, Not Spectacular] Reference
COLLINS: But as we strive for the perfect coif, are we damaging our hair?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Mar 22, 2007] Reference
When the coif and cap beneath had followed, the level sunbeams flamed in his hair. From Wordnik.com. [Hokas Pokas]
He reached toward his coif and immediately a panic-stricken little hand stayed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
Maytera Marble's sleek metal head bobbed humbly, oddly mechanical without her coif. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
I was glad to see that you had resumed your coif when you went back to your cenoby. From Wordnik.com. [Calde of the Long Sun]
The strings were used to tie the coif to the head, and were fastened under the chin. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
She wore a sky-blue coif and a white overall for morning, and was gaily arch as usual. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
The coif or covering to the head worn by this order has also given a denomination to them. From Wordnik.com. [An Essay on Professional Ethics Second Edition] Reference
The SoHo outlet is now packed with locals whose perfect blowouts resemble Getty's own coif. From Wordnik.com. [You Can't Touch This] Reference
Henceforth every door step held a friend; not a coif or a blouse passed without a greeting. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
She tossed her head, and instantly he got upon his feet, catching up his coif as he did so. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
He made himself a coif with his plaited fingers and lightly sketched in a swinging crucifix. From Wordnik.com. [The Tiger in the Smoke]
He was still clad in his mail but had stripped off his helm and coif and given them to Amalric. From Wordnik.com. [The Falcons of Montabard]
To anyone interested in the study of origins the symbolic value of the coif is very considerable. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
He wore a green smock and pants, a coif thing that concealed his hair, and a translator lavaliere. From Wordnik.com. [Perseus Spur]
Her linen coif was pulled tight around her plump, middle-aged face, and she reminded me of someone. From Wordnik.com. [To Say Nothing of the Dog]
She had mounted her best coif, and tied across her shrivelled old breast was a vivid purple silk kerchief. From Wordnik.com. [In and out of Three Normady Inns] Reference
They wanted to see his effeminate coif destroyed, his perfumed body beaten and violently slammed to the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Hello, Gorgeous] Reference
The brooding brunette donned a Monroe-esque platinum coif for her most recent film, "Life or Something Like It.". From Wordnik.com. [Newsmakers] Reference
The distinguishing feature is the coif, and, wherever it is discovered, it may be safely accepted as a criterion. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
More frequent is the coif-like kekryphalos covering the whole hair, or only the back hair, and tied into a knot at the top. From Wordnik.com. [Museum of Antiquity A Description of Ancient Life] Reference
The newly called arrived in a black robe, attended by his clerk, who brought with him on his arm a scarlet hood and a coif. From Wordnik.com. [The Customs of Old England] Reference
But there are plenty of insightful - and caustic - critiques on everything from a film's poor plot to a character's bad coif. From Wordnik.com. [Grrls Town] Reference
Tall and dignified, with her silvery hair concealed by her coif, she combined a noble presence with great kindliness of manner. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Glyn had assumed the coif in October, 1648, and in so doing had followed the example of Sir Henry Montague and others of his predecessors. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
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