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  • Among the hundreds of guests invited, there were duplicate costumes, with three Catherine the Greats, eight Madame de Maintenons, ten Madame de Pompadours, and a host of courtiers, cavaliers and courtesans.

    The Bradley-Martin Ball | Edwardian Promenade 2009

  • Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, above the slate rooftops.

    La insistencia de Jürgen Fauth 2010

  • The Pompadours: A Satire on the Art of Government by Saltykov-Shchedrin, translated from the Russian and with an introduction by David Magarshack

    Among the Savages Hardwick, Elizabeth 2003

  • Carmens an 'Father Timeses, Pierrots an' Pierrettes, Pompadours an '

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 Various

  • Pompadours, the men-at-arms of Maurevert, and the carabineers of La

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

  • Only it is strange, that as the Pompadours went out reticules came in, and presently they were called Ridicules and such Ridicules we still have.

    Chapter XXVI 1917

  • When I was young, there were still Pompadours, but now there are no longer any Pompadours.

    Chapter XXVI 1917

  • Society lifts its hands in horror; but from age to age the Helens, the Messalinas, the Du Barrys, the Pompadours, the

    The Financier, a novel Theodore Dreiser 1908

  • None of the Louis's ever gave their Pompadours, nor Napoleon his

    There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906

  • "Collinson, K.C.B. -- He commanded the Pompadours-my father's old regiment," hissed Swayne major.

    Stalky & Co. Rudyard Kipling 1900

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