She wore the same sort of red kerchief with seven knots whose points all stood straight up, a tignon; but she was much taller and much thinner, surprisingly thin for a cook, with long hands ribbed with veins against her chocolate skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [All That Glitters] Reference

Anderson and Ga - tignon (1986), as well as Davidson (1980 and 1982) supported this idea explicitly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference

Always dressed in a neat calico gown, a fichu and tignon, even in Paris she did not alter her dress nor wear another headgear than her own bandana.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference

Later, dusky Henriette Blondéau comes, with her tignon stuck full of pins and the deep pockets of her apron bulging with sticks of bandoline, pots of pomade, hairpins and a.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference

Grandpré mère strolled about in a gingham blouse volante, her frosty hair covered with a plaid tignon; and Grandpré pére sniffled around (he had some catarrhal trouble, I guess) in carpet slippers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood,] Reference

Old Celestine, with a bandana tignon twisted about her head, hobbled in and out, taking a personal interest in everything; and she lingered occasionally to talk patois with Robert, whom she had known as.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening and Selected Short Stories] Reference

A bandana tignon twisted about her head, hobbled in and out, taking a personal interest in everything; and she lingered occasionally to talk patois with Robert, whom she had known as a boy.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Awakening] Reference