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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
  1. 1

    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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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.