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- noun Plural form of
bouffant .
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Examples
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Bring on the bouclé suits, bouffants and baked Alaskas—ladylike looks from the 1950s and '60s reign supreme for fall and spring.
Fashion's Real Housewives Christina Binkley 2011
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A free-entry Sunday session, this new weekend wind-down will also host guest decks sessions from various East End faces, who'll be playing songs that owe a serious debt to all those wonderful women in matching sequinned evening gowns and backcombed bouffants.
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Wig powder, a product of finely ground starch (a.k.a. flour), was used liberally by the naive queen in her legendary towering bouffants, casting her and her fashion statements in a distinctly unflattering, frivolous light.
Tove Hermanson: Grey Hair as Fleeting Trend, or Social Statment? 2010
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Wig powder, a product of finely ground starch (a.k.a. flour), was used liberally by the naive queen in her legendary towering bouffants, casting her and her fashion statements in a distinctly unflattering, frivolous light.
Tove Hermanson: Grey Hair as Fleeting Trend, or Social Statment? 2010
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Amelia Jenks Bloomer 1818-1894, une suffragette, donnait des conférences habillée d'une jupe courte et de pantalons bouffants serrés aux chevilles.
Archive 2010-05-01 Rene Meertens 2010
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Louis's hairdressers spent hours teasing women's hair into bouffants; Ann was convinced the future was all about blow-drying.
Shear Business: Can the divorced founders of Hair Cuttery run their salon chain together? 2010
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The icing on the elegant cake were the conical bouffants and bright lips that completed the refined visage.
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The icing on the elegant cake were the conical bouffants and bright lips that completed the refined visage.
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The icing on the elegant cake were the conical bouffants and bright lips that completed the refined visage.
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Sequins and hairsprayed bouffants were hastily ushered back to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on February 26, 1981, when President and Mrs. Reagan honored British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher ( "the other woman in my life," joked the president) with their first lavish White House state dinner.
Lesley M. M. Blume: State Dinner Menus of Eras Past: Aspic, Hot Dogs, and Boiled Mutton 2009
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