The word "coif" is usable in written English and is well written.
It can be used to refer to a hairstyle or the act of styling hair, often in a particular manner. Example: "She decided to coif her hair into an elegant updo for the wedding." Alternatives include "style" or "arrange."
Tomcats Barbershop, specializing in pompadour, punk and glam-rocker concoctions, and Hair Metal Salon (branching out from none other than Williamsburg) have arrived to coif the wired-in and amped-up young consumers who are the reason the neighborhood expects to build 7,300 new housing units by the end of 2013.
(I guess we should be grateful that Mr. Bon Jovi hasn't gone the route of Roy Orbison, who maintained his jet-black coif well into his 50s, giving him the unfortunate look of an aging blackjack dealer at a lesser Vegas casino).
Looking for someone to carefully coif your curls?
On the big day, us school mothers will pay a beauty parlor about $100 each to dress us and coif our hair in the appropriate swept up manner.
"The Victorian hoop skirt, the Gibson Girl coif, the plume hat slouching over one winking eye" -- these and every other part of Gypsy Rose Lee are examined afresh by Karen Abbott in "American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare Random Housese, $26).
Instead of the rivers of hair and beestung lips there is a neat coif and an oddly shortened upper lip, which makes Mrs Brown look less like a medieval temptress and more like an amiable rodent.
Tiny and bird-like, with a beautiful coif of white or rinsed hair in old age, she wore high heels with her lab coat, and wielded her minute spatulas with exquisitely manicured hands.An ardent champion of scientific training for women (she set up a foundation for it), she never married or had children.
One 12th-century depiction shows an iron visor worn over a coif of mail.
The coif could also be an indoor skullcap of black cloth or silk.
She told the paper that despite her role, Trump wouldn't let her "near" his infamous coif.
Even a chain-mail coif can work for the 21st century, as a cable-knit hoodie.
