I guess you used a different dictionary. grin

Coiffure [See Coif.] A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair. --Addison (Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary).

Coif - a skullcap worn by nuns under a veil or by soldiers under a hood of mail or formerly by British sergeants-at-law (2001 Princeton University).

PS: your definition was listed as well and IMHO is the "normal" usage of the word, but you know writers.


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