bouffant
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- adjective
- /buːˈfɒnt/
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bouffant
- For the party, she decided on a bouffant look that made her hair appear fuller and more glamorous.
- bouffant hairdo
- bouffant hair
- wear a bouffant
I think it's given me quite a nice, sleek and shiny little bouffant blowout.
- I think it's given me quite a nice, sleek and shiny little bouffant blowout.
Examples
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The bride arrived with a stunning bouffant hairstyle that added elegance to her appearance.
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It's a little too bouffant, isn't it?
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For me, I bought the bouffant black wig, but the dress and coat belonged to my mom.
Blog text (13) -
Only you'll need to grow your hair long and work up a bouffant hairstyle.
Fiction book (1994) -
Her hair whirls in a bouffant style above her head. Jim Denny
Fiction book (1990) -
Pageboy puff like a bouffant, a beehive, sure.
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There were women in short skirts and high heels, their bouffant hairdos as steady as carved stones.
Fiction book (1990) -
Her auburn hair was molded into a bouffant hairdo and topped with a pillbox hat.
Fiction book (1999) -
She styled her hair into a bouffant, giving it a rounded and voluminous look.
Synonyms
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2.2
Rounded and soft in shape, often filled with air or soft material
Hair or clothing shaped to look full and rounded
A part of clothing gathered to form a rounded shape that sticks out
How Voluminous
Surface Forms
Etymology
Bouffant as an adjective also comes from French bouffer, meaning 'to puff', and you can think of the English word puffy to remember it. That way, something described as bouffant is 'puffed out' and full of volume, like a skirt or hair.