chignon
/sheen-yon, sheen-yuhn; French shee-nyawn/US // ˈʃin yɒn, ʃinˈyʌn; French ʃiˈnyɔ̃ //UK // (ˈʃiːnjɒn, French ʃiɲɔ̃) //
发髻,髻,髻的,发髻的
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n.名词 noun
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plural chi·gnons [sheen-yonz, sheen-yuhnz; French shee-nyawn]. /ˈʃin yɒnz, ʃinˈyʌnz; French ʃiˈnyɔ̃/.
- : a large, smooth twist, roll, or knot of hair, worn by women at the nape of the neck or the back of the head.
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nounhairdo
Examples
Dotty was giving an extra touch to her chignon, and Prudy trying on her cap.
The latter wore no covering on their rich, shining hair, twisted into a kind of Greek chignon.
Of course I could not continue to wear my hair la pigtail, and that went up in the then fashionable chignon.
She wore an imperceptible hat, balanced on an immense pyramidal chignon, from which escaped a torrent of wavy hair.
The women wind theirs in a peculiar knot, in about the position of the French chignon.
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