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bouffant
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Word definitions for bouffant in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
bouffant \bouffant\ adj. being puffed out; -- used mostly of hair style, and sometimes clothing; as, a bouffant hairdo; a bouffant skirt. Syn: puffy. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] ||
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A blonde lady, with bouffant hair above a heavily lined, over-powdered face, addressed the chair. ▪ Her orange-red hair was worn bouffant , and her orange lipstick made her look like a small circus clown. ▪ I aimed to get ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1869, from French bouffant , present participle of bouffer "to puff out," from Old French bouffer (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *buffare , probably ultimately imitative of puffing. As a noun by 1870. Earlier as a French word in English. First used of hairdo ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt" [syn: puffy ]
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A bouffant is a type of hairstyle characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.
Usage examples of bouffant.
She was twenty-one - a tall bouffant blonde with glossy red lips and a gaspy little voice.
Price was the last teacher I had in elementary school who did her hair in a helmetlike sprayed bouffant.
She was a tall girl with- very long legs, a flour-white face topped with thick, dark auburn hair, which had been cut to bouffant style but which now fell from jagged partings over each side of her high cheek-bones.
She was twenty-one - a tall bouffant blonde with glossy red lips and a gaspy little voice.
By 1967, the year I graduated, the hairstyles were bouffant, as stiffly lacquered as wigs, with flipped ends sticking out.
The bouffant mass of silver hair was so profuse that from a distance it might have been taken for a white silk turban.
Moscow, from the open vodka bottles and sad little beet salads to the bouffant hairdos and color-clashing beaded dresses of the heavyset women.
Gentle's claque of doo-wopping Motown cabinet-puppets have purple dresses and matching lipstick and nail polish, and bouffants so blindingly Afrosheened that there had been special lighting and film-speed problems in the custodial closet: SEC.
I say, looking at him with touching hopefulness but knowing that already he is thinking in terms of extravagant bouffants and mousse-stiffened swirls, possibly a fringe of bouncy ringlets.
Strolling across the garnet flagstones, they have the opportunity to see all the human types in their bright and often outre garb: the martians with their back-bending stalk legs and bouffant manes, the whippet-thin wraiths of the Anthropos Essentia in their orange frocks and headwraps, and the aboriginals looking so simian in their contour jackets and flexfabrics.
Miss beresford regarded me thoughtfully for a moment, then bent to examine her hors d'oeuvres, showing the gleaming auburn hair cut in a bouffant style that looked as if it had been achieved with a garden rake and a pair of secateurs but had probably cost a fortune.
Feeling quite proud of her forethought, Acorna donned not only the clinging body wrap and long skirt Gill now insisted she wear, but also a scarf of filmy green to match the skirt which could be draped casually across her head so that instead of a horn, she seemed only to have a bouffant hair style from which a few silver curls escaped.
A bouffant cap, mask, and isolation gown hid all her features except her eyes, which were visible through a pair of clear goggles.
He paused, uncertain of how to describe the bouffant vision, her hair oranger and higher than he'd ever seen it.