pompadour

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He's also hitting the road again, touring like his pompadour was still in style.

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  1. noun A woman's hairstyle formed by sweeping the hair straight up from the forehead into a high, turned-back roll.
  2. noun A man's hairstyle with the hair brushed up from the forehead.

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  • His most striking feature was his massive silver pompadour, much beloved by the frightened and repressed elderly women, gullible lackwits and similarly coiffed arrogant male peers who had helped propel him to power. —  F ;SF; - vol 090 issue 06 - June 1996
  • He ruffled his bleached pompadour, and twisted his many rings as he explained that it could not possibly be done The skirts were growing wider, and could I not see that it required fifteen yards of taffeta to line a gown? —  MADELEINE: An Autobiography
  • He's also hitting the road again, touring like his pompadour was still in style. —  Broward-Palm Beach New Times | Complete Issue
  • Her pompadour is a wet-felted wool ball that I glued white Curly Hair ™ to, then trimmed back, and added blush. —  beetlegrass
  • Derek, once again, has an enormous pompadour, which is really adorable on him. —  BuddyTV
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  1. After the Marquise de Pompadour.

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  1. Named after Marquise de Pompadour, influential at the French court in the middle of the 18th century.
 

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/ˈpɑmpədur/
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