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bouffant
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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.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt" [syn: puffy ]
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 ...
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 ...
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] ||
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.