Today’s word of the day is:
chamfron ‘sham-fren noun [ME shamfron, fr. MF chanfrein] (15c) Armor used to protect the front of a war horse’s head in medieval times
Usage example: “And the audience was later stunned to learn that Lynne Cheney was not, in fact, wearing some sort of hideous rusty chamfron on her head during a speech that made the souls of children wince, but was merely roughly 47 layers of shellack and makeup she must apply every morning to better cover the scales and the fissures.”
(From Mark Morford, of course. Who else?)
It’s a British fashion thing
I think she gets it from Margaret Thatcher. If anyone ever had doubts about whether a space-based missile defense system could work, that person hasn’t reckoned with Baroness Thatcher’s ‘do. That was IMPENETRABLE to anything, nuclear warheads included. I figure we could have saved billions in research if the DoD had just focused on how to put her hair onto an orbital platform.