Pompadour

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  • noun. A woman's hairstyle formed by sweeping the hair straight up from the forehead into a high, turned-back roll.
  • noun. A man's hairstyle with the hair brushed up from the forehead.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. A head-dress worn by women about the middle of the eighteenth century; also, a mode of dressing the hair by rolling it off the forehead over a cushion, later in use.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A woman's hairstyle.
  • noun. A man's hairstyle of the 1950s.
  • noun. A crimson or pink colour.
  • verb. To style hair into a pompadour
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. style women's hair in a pompadour
  • noun. French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)
  • noun. a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead
  • Word Usage
    "That a girl barely fourteen should have decided views on the subject of dress, and insist upon wearing what she called a pompadour and having her belts extremely pointed in front, was surprising to Aunt"
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