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Pompadour

//ˈpɒmpədʊə// noun, verb, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
  2. 2
    a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead wordnet
  3. 3
    A men's hairstyle of the 1950s.

    "Squat and perspiring, with a low pompadour and a thin black mustache, he was inevitably disheveled by evening."

  4. 4
    A crimson or pink colour.

    "[…] head, neck, and whole under parts fine but very deep crimson or pompadour-colour […]"

  5. 5
    A corsage with low square neck.
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  1. 6
    A pattern for silk, with leaves and flowers in pink, blue, and gold.
  2. 7
    A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881. UK, historical, slang
Verb
  1. 1
    To style hair into a pompadour

    "But by mid-afternoon we had both grown tired of putting on and taking off the clothes my mother and Beata had made for Lillian Russell, and of taking down and pompadouring again the wig Beata had turned backside front so it should be long where ladies' hair was supposed to be long."

  2. 2
    style women's hair in a pompadour wordnet

Etymology

Etymology 1

From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.

Etymology 2

From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.

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