Pompadour

//ˈpɒmpədʊə//

"Pompadour" in a Sentence (13 examples)

Madame de Pompadour was Louis XV's mistress.

Madame de Pompadour helped establish the Rococo style.

Madame de Pompadour liked pastel colors and floral patterns.

Madame de Pompadour was a patroness of the arts.

Madame de Pompadour yielded considerable power and influence at the court.

Madame de Pompadour was the King' confidant.

Madame de Pompadour was one of the only people whom the King trusted to tell him the truth.

In 1672, having finished his philosophy course, he was given a scholarship at the college of St Michel at Paris by Jean, marquis de Pompadour, lieutenant-general of the Limousin.

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

The Donald's strange pompadour and Hillary's strange server have eclipsed all the usual primary permutations.

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

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.

1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I parted my hair back and smoothed it instead of pompadouring it.

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