Pompadour

Quick meaning: Pompadour is a noun meaning A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.

Meaning

A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.

More Meanings

1. A men's hairstyle of the 1950s.
2. A crimson or pink colour.
3. A corsage with low square neck.
4. A pattern for silk, with leaves and flowers in pink, blue, and gold.
5. To style hair into a pompadour
6. (UK, military, slang, historical) A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.

Example Sentences

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

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

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

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.

Word Forms

• pompadours
• pompador
• pompadouring
• pompadoured

Synonyms for pompadour

Depending on context, synonyms include do, ducktail, quiff.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pouf, updo, bouffant, pouffe, chevelure, peruke.

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