[F., agent-sb. f. coiffer to dress the hair.] The French word for hair-dresser: affected by fashionable or artistic hair-dressers, and their patrons.
1858. Simmonds, Dict. Trade, 98/1. Coiffure, a head-dress, coiffeur being a hair-dresser.
1884. Manch. Exam., 27 Oct., 5/3. Looking at the effects the coiffeur is able to produce … his power must be acknowledged.
