Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- 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.
from 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.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A woman's
hairstyle . - noun A man's hairstyle of the 1950s.
- noun A
crimson orpink colour. - verb To style hair into a pompadour
from 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
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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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
The Pleasant Street Partnership A Neighborhood Story Mary F. Leonard
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On second look, what I thought was a huge pompadour is in fact just his cap.
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Search hairstyle hair piled high swooped back and discover that this is called a "pompadour."
Wired Top Stories Ken Denmead 2012
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The origins of the name pompadour are as difficult to pin down as the color.
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The dark closely cropped hair, worn in the so-called pompadour or military style, the pale, saturnine features, the manner and general bearing all loudly proclaimed his Gallic nationality.
The Mask A Story of Love and Adventure Arthur Hornblow 1903
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Derek, once again, has an enormous pompadour, which is really adorable on him.
BuddyTV 2009
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Her pompadour is a wet-felted wool ball that I glued white Curly Hair ™ to, then trimmed back, and added blush.
beetlegrass 2009
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NCIS' Michael Weatherly has been growing his hair to the "pompadour" look he sported back in 2003 for a March episode that explores the origins of his Agent DiNozzo.
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The Exis got them in the habit of wearing what I suppose you could call a pompadour, and to my mind, that didn’t sit well with their overall look.
PAUL IS UNDEAD ALAN GOLDSHER 2010
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She was dressed in a simple gray cotton frock with neat lawn collar and cuffs, and her hair was raised in a lustrous "pompadour," a wide comb traversing it behind and combs at the sides of her head upholding it in front.
A Fountain Sealed Anne Douglas Sedgwick 1904
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