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UK
/pˈɒmpɐdˌɔː/
]
[ US /ˈpɑmpədɔɹ/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑmpədɔɹ/ ]
NOUN
- a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead
VERB
- style women's hair in a pompadour
How To Use pompadour In A Sentence
- In spite of the fact that she was over seventy when Tiberius became emperor, in dedicated artwork she got progressively younger.22 Slowly but surely the round-faced visage of her earlier public portraits underwent a facelift, the severe nodus hairstyle with its bulky pompadour gradually replaced with a softer, more graceful center part, her wrinkles filled in, her skin made smoother, her expression calmer and more serene. Caesars’ Wives
- In spite of the fact that she was over seventy when Tiberius became emperor, in dedicated artwork she got progressively younger.22 Slowly but surely the round-faced visage of her earlier public portraits underwent a facelift, the severe nodus hairstyle with its bulky pompadour gradually replaced with a softer, more graceful center part, her wrinkles filled in, her skin made smoother, her expression calmer and more serene. Caesars’ Wives
- He pompadoured his foretop rather short and tied a full eagle tail on top of his head as a single ornament.
- Whether it's the sex appeal of Lili Sweet, the wild hillbilly antics of Bloodshot Bill, the Brains' ghoulish makeup or the Gutter Demons' Meteor-esque Mohawk pompadours, Montreal psychobilly bands mean business in the looks department.
- A white-faced girl with inky hair gave Speedy a hooded glance of appraisal, while her sullen date glared openly at him; a giggling trio of teenage rockabillys came through with matching pompadours.
- Within four months the king made her marquise de Pompadour and pensioned her husband off to farm in the country.
- Small touches add to the surrealism: a cheap looking miniature in the opening shot to represent Pepa's apartment block, Candela's weird coffeepot-shaped earrings, a pompadoured cab driver whose taxi is decked out with a Mambo theme.
- On September 14th as Marquise de Pompadour she was formally presented at court.
- One morning as they were breakfasting, they glimpsed “an apparition,” as Jane put it, “a buxom girl, very sexy in a tight black satin dress and black satin high-heeled shoes, with long red fingernails, plus a high Pompadour hairdo.” A Covert Affair
- Boucher considered these tapestry cartoons, which belonged to Mine de Pompadour and hung in her chateau at Bellevue, to be among his happiest inventions.