Examples from literature

• Her free hand went up to the heavy chignon that hung uncertainly beneath her bonnet—a gesture of coquetry which she told herself she despised. 
• Hurriedly and without changing her dress she had her hair done up and stuck white roses in her chignon and at her bosom. 
• Standing up with his hands on the back of her chair he saw the teeth of her comb that bit into her chignon. 
• The back division is combed back, and after being twisted into a compact mass, is tied in a chignon upon the crown of the head. 
• The hair was dressed with detached curls, four each side of the neck and a floating chignon behind.