Pompadour
['pɒmpədɔː;-dʊə] or ['pɑmpə,dor]
Definition
(noun.) a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead.
(noun.) French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764).
(verb.) style women's hair in a pompadour.
Checked by Horatio--From WordNet
Definition
(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.
Editor: Olivia
Definition
n. an 18th-century head-dress a fashion of dressing women's hair by brushing it up from the forehead and rolling it over a cushion: a corsage with low square neck: a pattern for silk with leaves and flowers pink blue and gold.
Edited by Bertram
Examples
- It's perfectly wonderful, Birkin harrowing Hell--harrowing the Pompadour--HIC! D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- They went to the music-hall, and afterwards to the Pompadour Cafe. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- GUDRUN IN THE POMPADOUR Christmas drew near, all four prepared for flight. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Perhaps the little woman thought she might play the part of a Maintenon or a Pompadour. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Editor: Ryan