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Answer for the clue "High style of the 1700s ", 4 letters:
pouf

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WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. offensive terms for an openly homosexual man [syn: fagot , faggot , fag , fairy , nance , pansy , queen , queer , poof , poove ] thick cushion used as a seat [syn: ottoman , pouffe , puff , hassock ]

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Image:Marie-Antoinette, 1775 - Musée Antoine Lécuyer.jpg|thumb|right| The Queen is shown wearing a pouf created by her hairdresser, Léonard Autié . The pouf or pouffe also "toque" (literally a thick cushion) is a hairstyle and a hairstyling support deriving ...

Usage examples of pouf.

Charlie pressed her on to the pouf fe near the fire and then he sat down on the floor beside her.

THE RIDE Peggy Davidson sat hunched up on a lop-sided pouf fe in front of the fire between her husband and the dark, sombre man who had, in some strange way, become part and parcel of their joint lives.

Rose had two plastic curlers clipped on the crown of her head, just enough to give her coif that rounded pouf short hairdos seem to require.

On her head she wore a Turkish turban composed of black-and-violet-striped cotton with double poufs centered by an up-standing plume held in place by a brooch.

She wore a powdered wig that swept high into curls and poufs ornamented with loops of pearls and bunches of satin ribbon.

All may seem to go well, but, at any moment, it is possible you may do something, show her some sight, or some way of seeing which will break in upon her selfhood, break a skandha and pouf!

In her pitifully plain taffeta, she was overwhelmed by the scallops, poufing, cording, piping, fringing, passementerie, and tassels that ornamented their sophisticated gowns.

Using a comb, a round hairbrush, and about three pounds of hairpins, she managed to 23 Jude Deveraux L E G E N D sweep her thick wavy hair into a high pouf off her face, then allowed long dark curls to tumble down her back.

Laurence said he wanted to meet me here at eleven to discuss something really important, when fuck me I finds it's fuckin' cerrado and that old pouf nowhere to be found.

His chair was one of the new, bulbously padded leather "confortables," and he stiffly raised his legs to rest his feet on a matching leather pouf.

The artist is fond of a certain forget-me-not blue for the shading and we think he's a pouf but the diagrammatic vital statistics are up to scratch and there's a clever system using key colours for giving what amounts to a visual permutation table for the types of ammo interchangeable among the run-of-the-mill international models, but they haven't yet conceded the obvious point that we need a set of oblique head-on pictures at something like ten or twelve degrees from the line of sight and a specially big one from above.

Her dark hair was poufed up and out and over her shoulders in a mass of curls designed to look as if she'd just fallen out of bed, but had probably taken an hour to perfect.

She was wearing a bright cotton dress in a snazzy print, bold red poppies on a ground of blue, and her hair looked as if it had been poufed at the beauty parlor that very afternoon.

The hostess had on a blue dress splashed with yellow hibiscus that matched her poufed hair.

This time, future-Emmie wore an abbreviated wedding veil that poufed around her head but didn’t cover her face.