Such true love was worthy of a better cause, for the lady was considerably more annoyed than flattered by the incident, chignons not being an article kept in stock by the native coiffeurs of Kuching.
"On the Equator"
Harry de Windt
Mademoiselle, after due deliberation, perhaps in consideration of the new coiffeurs, graciously consented.
"Madeline Payne, the Detective's Daughter"
Lawrence L. Lynch
Though formerly at Rome she had been accustomed to see Titianus every day at her house, this was their first meeting in Alexandria; for the previous day, exhausted by the sufferings of her sea-voyage, she had been carried in a closed litter to the Caesareum, and this morning she had declined to receive his visit, as her whole time was given up to her physicians, bathing-women, and coiffeurs.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers