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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.
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Pompadours of supper-time smoke billowed from chimneys, separating into girlish pigtails as the breeze combed them out, above the slate rooftops.
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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
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Carmens an 'Father Timeses, Pierrots an' Pierrettes, Pompadours an '
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, April 30, 1919 Various
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Pompadours, the men-at-arms of Maurevert, and the carabineers of La
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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
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When I was young, there were still Pompadours, but now there are no longer any Pompadours.
Chapter XXVI 1917
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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
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None of the Louis's ever gave their Pompadours, nor Napoleon his
There was a King in Egypt Norma Lorimer 1906
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"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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