Yes, I shall name a certain young sister who must have turned clumsy-fingered because she was thinking of her fal-lals and her chignon, or her new hat, when she ought to have been thinking of her duty to our lamps.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
This offer was declined with thanks; but on the morning of the day of the departure of this merry old gentleman for his country residence, the lady missed her chignon, which she had placed on her dressing-table the night before on retiring to rest.
"On the Equator"
Harry de Windt
I summoned courage to stand up for England, and the wife-a fat, sallow creature with three chins and a dissenting-looking chignon-glared at me as if she expected white bears to crawl out from under the table and gobble me up.
"Lady-Betty-Across-the-Water"
Lowell, Orson