Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Pompadour"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Pompadour \Pom"pa*dour\, 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.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
Pompadour
n 1: French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose
policies she influenced (1721-1764) [syn: {Pompadour}, {Marquise
de Pompdour}, {Jeanne Antoinette Poisson}]
2: a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the
forehead
v : style women's hair in a pompadour
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