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pompadour
CIDE DICTIONARY
pompadour, 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. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
pompadour, n. a woman's hairstyle with the hair in a high turned-back roll round the face.
Etymology
f. Marquise de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV of France d. 1764
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