Virginia Lupine coiffure
Glossary term
/vəˈdʒɪn.i.ə ˈluː.paɪn kwɒˈfjʊə/
Minerva Ledwitch’s elaborate hair arrangement, only inefficiently governed by a wide-awake hat.
Appears in
- Helix Folt, the Conservative chapters:
From the books (1 passage)
…- being if anything accentuated by the Virginia Lupine coiffure inefficiently held in check by the wide-awake hat. Thus encumbered, Miss Ledwitch perspires as copiously as may be supposed, and vents her more D.H.Lawrentian aspect by means of an earthy acceptance of this propensity as the ineluctable Lot of the Crone having embarked upon her Wise Years.