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Culotte longue bouffante, serrée aux genoux, autrefois portée par les femmes et les jeunes filles pour pratiquer un sport.
Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Angelica and I were playing Beauty Parlor and I was combing her hair, bouffante-like, in the way I imagined Parisien girls wore it.
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Every steel stood out in bold relief even under the most _bouffante_ drapery.
The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII: No. 356, October 23, 1886. Various
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And with a spasmodic bridling up, she pointed to the bouffante which used to stand up stiffly round her withered old throat, and stick out in front like a pouter pigeon.
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And with a spasmodic bridling-up, she pointed to the bouffante which used to stand up stiffly round her withered old throat, and stick out in front like a pouter pigeon.
John Halifax, Gentleman Dinah Maria Mulock Craik 1856
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_ "Rising, she turns her back to display her gauze _jupe élastique_, which is always exceedingly _bouffante_: expectorating upon the stage as she retires.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, October 23, 1841 Various
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