over-coiffured

Updated: June 5, 2025

Perhaps now and then a stern and elderly French couple he stolid, strongly bearded and decorated, she thin and brown, over-coiffured and over-ringed with an elderly angular daughter, hard to marry, regarded us with eyes of disapproval. Elodie in happy mood threw off restraint, as, in more private and intimate surroundings, she would have thrown off her corset.

William John Locke - The Mountebank