pompadour
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- noun
- /ˈpɒmpədɔːr/
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pompadour
- Vincent was tall and bone-thin, with a high-stacked pompadour, long sideburns, and a fading green tattoo on the left side of his neck.
- pompadour hairstyle
My mother hated the way my hair looked before I started growing it out when I had a pompadour and a duck's ass.
- My mother hated the way my hair looked before I started growing it out when I had a pompadour and a duck's ass.
Examples
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You don't have to be a rock and roller to wear a pompadour!
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Even Jim Steranko was there, decked out in his trademark pompadour and black clothing.
Blog text (10) -
His wiry gray hair was done up in a pompadour.
Fiction book (1991) -
His Elvis pompadour is even higher than Toby's.
Fiction book (1993) -
His hair was in a luscious, curved pompadour, held in place by some kind of expensive pomade.
Academic text (2007) -
Biff raised his eyebrows, looking wounded, and smoothed back his pompadour.
Fiction book (1996) -
I spot Humberto strutting along, his shiny pompadour adding an extra inch to his five-two.
Fiction book (1991) -
His carrot-red hair stood up in a pompadour like a rooster's comb, and a little belly swelled out over his belt.
Fiction book (1998) -
A high Elvis-style black pompadour of thick hair surmounted a face that looked as if it could have come off a Mayan carving.
Fiction book (1999) -
His hair was styled in a dramatic pompadour, rising high above his forehead.
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Etymology
Pompadour is named after Madame de Pompadour, a famous French woman in the 1700s who wore her hair high and swept back; so a pompadour is the hairstyle where the front hair is brushed or swept upward and worn high over the forehead.