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A chignon (UK: / ˈ ʃ iː n j ɒ̃ /, US: / ˈ ʃ iː n j ɒ n /, French:), from the French chignon meaning a bun, is a hairstyle characterized by wrapped hair on the back of the head. In the United States and United Kingdom, it is often used as an abbreviation of the French phrase chignon du cou, signifying a low bun worn at the nape of the ...
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The tignon law (also known as the chignon law [1]) was a 1786 law enacted by the Spanish Governor of Louisiana Esteban Rodríguez Miró that forced black women to wear a tignon headscarf. The law was intended to halt plaçage unions and tie freed black women to those who were enslaved, but the women who followed the law have been described as ...
Chignon can mean: Chignon (hairstyle) , a hairstyle with the hair in a "bun" Chignon (medical term) , a temporary swelling left on an infant's head after delivery by a ventouse suction cap
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The phone occurs as a deaffricated pronunciation of /tʃ/ in some other dialects (most notably, Northern Mexican Spanish, informal Chilean Spanish, and some Caribbean and Andalusian accents). [14] Otherwise, /ʃ/ is a marginal phoneme that occurs only in loanwords or certain dialects; many speakers have difficulty with this sound, tending to ...
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