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plural pompadours
A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead. examples
A men's hairstyle of the 1950s. quotations examples
Squat and perspiring, with a low pompadour and a thin black mustache, he was inevitably disheveled by evening.
2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 17
A crimson or pink colour. quotations examples
[…] head, neck, and whole under parts fine but very deep crimson or pompadour-colour […]
1812, George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, General Zoology: pt. 1. Aves, page 409
A corsage with low square neck. examples
A pattern for silk, with leaves and flowers in pink, blue, and gold. examples
(UK, military, slang, historical) A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.
third-person singular simple present pompadours, present participle pompadouring, simple past and past participle pompadoured
To style hair into a pompadour quotations examples
But by mid-afternoon we had both grown tired of putting on and taking off the clothes my mother and Beata had made for Lillian Russell, and of taking down and pompadouring again the wig Beata had turned backside front so it should be long where ladies' hair was supposed to be long.
1944, Skulda V. Banér, Latchstring Out, page 33
I parted my hair back and smoothed it instead of pompadouring it.
1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure