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Definition of Pompadour
1. Verb. Style women's hair in a pompadour.
2. Noun. French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764).
Generic synonyms: Marchioness, Marquise
3. Noun. A hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead.
Definition of Pompadour
1. n. A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.
Definition of Pompadour
1. Noun. A woman's hairstyle, named after Madame de Pompadour. ¹
2. Noun. A man's hairstyle of the 1950s ¹
3. Verb. To style hair into a pompadour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pompadour
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pompadour
Literary usage of Pompadour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1853)
"To place Farinelli-on the same level as pompadour was therefore to ... To speak
of pompadour as an artist is to notice her in a character which looks ..."
2. France Under Louis XV by James Breck Perkins (1897)
"While he despised humanity as a whole, he viewed with special contempt the king
Madame de pompadour," etc. Frederick to Knyphausen, March 2, 1756. ..."
3. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"As his rise had been mainly due to the favour of a royal mistress (Mme de
pompadour), so his fall was caused by the resentment of another (Mme Du Barry), ..."
4. History of England, from the Peace of Utrecht to the Peace of Versailles by Philip Henry Stanhope Stanhope (1858)
"Madame de pompadour had at first professed high admiration for the Prussian hero,
but found all her flattering messages receive only sarcastic replies. ..."
5. The Bookman (1910)
"Eberhard Ludwig of Wurtemberg, of whom the present volume treats, did precisely
the same *A German pompadour. By Marie Hay. New York: Charles Scribner's ..."
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