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pompadour
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1887 as a men's hairstyle; 1899 as a woman's style with the hair swept up over the forehead, in recognition of Jeanne-Antionette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour (1721-1764), mistress of Louis XV from 1745-50, who wore her hair in an upswept style. Used in her lifetime in reference to various fashions, accessories, colors, furniture, etc. The estate of Pompadour is in the Limousin region.
Wiktionary
n. 1 A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead. 2 A men's hairstyle of the 1950s. 3 A crimson or pink colour. vb. To style hair into a #Noun
Wikipedia
Pompadour can refer to:
- Arnac-Pompadour, often simply called Pompadour a commune of the Corrèze département of France, former marquisate, famous for its château and its national stud
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Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XV
- See Madame Pompadour (disambiguation) for further uses
- Pompadour (hairstyle), a combed hairstyle for women that takes its name from Madame de Pompadour
- Pompadour fish, also called 'Discus', genus Symphysodon, in the family Cichlidae
Pompadour refers to a hairstyle which is named for Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of King Louis XV. Although there are numerous variations of the style for both men, women, and children, the basic concept is hair swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead, and sometimes upswept around the sides and back as well.
After its initial popularity among fashionable women in the 18th century, the style was revived as part of the Gibson Girl look in the 1890s and continued to be in vogue until World War I. The style was in vogue for women once again in the 1940s. The men's version, as worn by early country and rock and roll stars such as Elvis Presley, was popular in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Variations of the pompadour style continue to be worn by men and women in the 21st century.
Usage examples of "pompadour".
But a knight of the Order of the Holy Ghost, who was near the Marquise de Pompadour, dryly asked me what country I came from.
My answer, rather a sharp one, made Madame de Pompadour laugh, and she asked me whether I truly came from down there.
As I saw him, I thought I had found the ideal majesty which I had been so surprised not to find in the king of Sardinia, and I could not entertain a doubt of Madame de Pompadour having been in love with the king when she sued for his royal attention.
Bernis, in which he said that if I could come to Versailles the next day he would present me to Madame de Pompadour, and that I should have an opportunity of seeing M.
I had a seat in the pit precisely under the private box of Madame de Pompadour, whom I did not know.
That word said quite by chance, and the double meaning of which I did not understand, made at once an important personage of me, and everybody in the box of Madame de Pompadour was curious to know me.
Gerard had come to the entrees-- Londonderry pheasants, escallops of duck, and rissolettes a la pompadour.
Bernis then told me that he had given a copy of my history to Madame la Marquise de Pompadour, and he promised to take the first opportunity of presenting me to this allpowerful lady.
He had contrived to gain the favour of Madame de Pompadour, who had spoken about him to the king, for whom he had made a laboratory, in which the monarch--a martyr to boredom--tried to find a little pleasure or distraction, at all events, by making dyes.
From the greased curls of his pompadour, through the slick sharkskin drape, to the overly pointed shoes, he was nothing less than the executive version of the pachuco greez.
We went where the suits were, while Peewee carried Madame Pompadour and half carried the Mother Thing.
Montmartel, whom secret history makes the father of Madame de Pompadour, for he was the lover of Madame Poisson at the same time as M.
At fifty, Arroyo looked sleek, slick, and ready for prime time, his razor-cut pompadour in perfect order, glasses lightly tinted, manicured nails buffed to a subtle gloss.
Why has he not brought me a letter from the Duc de Choiseul or the Marquise de Pompadour?
The guy regarded me as one would a pigeon squit plopped on a pampered pompadour.