Etymology From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.
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A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
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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.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 17:
The Donald's strange pompadour and Hillary's strange server have eclipsed all the usual primary permutations.2015 August 22, Maureen Dowd, “Donald Trump Struts in His Own Pageant”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 22 Aug 2015:
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A crimson or pink colour.
[…] head, neck, and whole under parts fine but very deep crimson or pompadour-colour […]1812, George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, General Zoology: pt. 1. Aves, page 409:
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A corsage with low square neck.
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A pattern for silk, with leaves and flowers in pink, blue, and gold.
Etymology From French Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of Louis XV.
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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.1944, Skulda V. Banér, Latchstring Out, page 33:
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.