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- noun an article of
woman 'sheadgear consisting of a piece ofmaterial tied in individual ways
Etymologies
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Examples
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They were looking at a tall woman in a simple smock dress; she wore a plain headscarf, in contrast to Ruth Benning's elaborate _tignon_.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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She wore a plain gingham dress, and her head was covered in a white _tignon, _ the cloth wrapped and secured just so.
New Race Joe Sullivan 2010
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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.
All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995
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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.
All That Glitters V.C.Andrews® 1995
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She had her hair tied with a white kerchief, a tignon with seven knots whose points all stuck straight up.
Ruby V.C.Andrews 1994
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She had long, silky black hair gathered in thick ropelike strands around her head, over which she wore a red tignon with seven knots whose points all stuck straight up.
Ruby V.C.Andrews 1994
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She had her hair tied with a white kerchief, a tignon with seven knots whose points all stuck straight up.
Ruby V.C.Andrews 1994
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She had her hair tied with a white kerchief, a tignon with seven knots whose points all stuck straight up.
Ruby V.C.Andrews 1994
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She had long, silky black hair gathered in thick ropelike strands around her head, over which she wore a red tignon with seven knots whose points all stuck straight up.
Ruby V.C.Andrews 1994
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She wore her red tignon in her hair with the seven knots all pointing straight up.
Pearl in The Mist V.C.Andrews® 1994
jennifer commented on the word tignon
(also spelled and pronounced tiyon) is a series of headscarves or a large piece of material tied or wrapped around the head to form a kind of turban that resembles the West African gélé.
December 28, 2007