Pompadour

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A woman's hairstyle formed by sweeping the hair straight up from the forehead into a high, turned-back roll.
  • n. A man's hairstyle with the hair brushed up from the forehead.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A woman's hairstyle.
  • n. A man's hairstyle of the 1950s.
  • n. A crimson or pink colour.
  • v. To style hair into a pompadour
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. 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.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. style women's hair in a pompadour
  • n. French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)
  • n. a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    style    marchioness    marquise    hairdo    hairstyle   
    Cross Reference
    pompadour pattern    pompa-dour parasol   
    Synonym
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