Crossword clues for bouffant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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] ||
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 style 1955.
Wiktionary
a. Of hair or clothing, full-bodied or puffy; puffed out away from head or body. n. A popular hairstyle in the mid-to-late 16th century, nowadays common with poodles.
WordNet
adj. being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing; "a bouffant skirt" [syn: puffy]
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.