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pompadour
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun pompadour has 2 senses
- pompadour(n = noun.person) jeanne antoinette poisson, marquise de pompadour - French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764); Array is a kind of marchioness, marquise
- pompadour(n = noun.body) Array - a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead; Array is a kind of coif, coiffure, hair style, hairdo, hairstyle
Derived form verb pompadour1
Verb pompadour has 1 sense
- pompadour(v = verb.body) Array - style women's hair in a pompadour; Array is one way to style
Derived form noun pompadour2
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CIDE DICTIONARY
pompadour, 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pompadour, n. a woman's hairstyle with the hair in a high turned-back roll round the face.
Etymology
f. Marquise de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV of France d. 1764
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