How To Use Pompadour In A Sentence
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I got hooked on this song because of its video, in which a gang of pompadoured Japanese bikers dance in a city park.
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Yet far more of the portraits of Pompadour were not shown in public at all, destined instead for palatial private decors where they could be enjoyed alone by the King and his cohorts and by her own intimates.
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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.
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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.
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Within four months the king made her marquise de Pompadour and pensioned her husband off to farm in the country.
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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.
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On September 14th as Marquise de Pompadour she was formally presented at court.
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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
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Boucher considered these tapestry cartoons, which belonged to Mine de Pompadour and hung in her chateau at Bellevue, to be among his happiest inventions.
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In real life they looked small, sallow, extravagantly Vaselined, with poofter pompadours and funny shoes.
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Maman had danced a minuet dressed in a Pompadour costume, and she herself had gone as a deviless, with a scarlet-and-black dress and little golden horns in her black hair.
A Childhood in Brittany Eighty Years Ago
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After learning about the potential for using hairdos as drug caches, who will ever watch film clips of the Andrews Sisters, with their shellacked pompadours, the same way again?
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Even Jones admits to the lack of hard evidence that Madame de Pompadour was a procuress, but only in an aside 100 pages after his initial charge.
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He pompadoured his foretop rather short and tied a full eagle tail on top of his head as a single ornament.
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Whether he was overparted, or overworked, in the Pompadour atmosphere; or whether he succumbed to the "continual headache" of which he speaks in his letter to Hogarth, his health gradually declined.
De Libris: Prose and Verse
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To match her big hair, pompadoured R&B singer Janelle Monae flaunted both personality and pipes as she gave the first great performance of the show with her single "Cold War.
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Oh, no, don't let this one fool you?" who in the world is this, with this greasy pompadour combed nearly as high again as his face, through which shows the peened, the tenderized soul of a fighter who's not only taken dives, but also thought heavily about them all the way down.
Gravity's Rainbow
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How else could you have forgotten the skinny leather ties, impossible post-Ted pompadours, and endlessly layered synthesizers over fake English accents?
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Installed at Versailles in 1745, she was ennobled as Marquise de Pompadour, and for 20 years swayed state policy, appointing her own favourites.
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On Sundays and public holidays, several bands set up and perform, there are a few international performers doing their thing, '60 guys with their pompadours do the twist, and there are a few street vendors.
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These works take cues from rebellious, pretty-boy Americana, namely Brando and Elvis; doe eyes and pompadours appear to float in the etchings, disembodied, like clouds from a smokestack.
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Say what you will about that pompadoured pomposity, Blag.
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Pompadour was herself one of the few eighteenth-century practitioners of this glyptic art.
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Porter Wagoner, the blond pompadoured, rhinestone-encrusted personification of Nashville tradition, host of the longest-running country-music variety show in TV history and mentor to Dolly Parton, died Sunday night of lung cancer.
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It makes me wonder why I never thought of Morrissey in the context of Elvis before, if only for the pompadours, let alone the iconic stature.
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The painting reconfigures the motifs and, true to mondaine ideals, pictures Pompadour through artful indirection and allusion as artist and artwork.
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A few larger birds are still present in Khao Ang Ru Nai, including, at least until the early 1990s, up to five pairs of woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus, the last such remaining in Thailand), pompadour pigeon (Treron pompadora), and green imperial pigeon (Ducula aenea).
Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests
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In the pastel, these emblems are displayed as attributes of Pompadour herself, or at least of her tastes.
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These psychobilly legends may be getting a bit of grey in their greased-up pompadours, but are just as psycho as ever.
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Over a table hung a sign saying ‘U.S.O. Welcomes Our Servicemen,’ and a young woman with her hair neatly rolled in a high pompadour offered coffee and powdered doughnuts to servicemen passing by.
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He appeared on My Wife and Kids, a truly godawful ABC sitcom on which his fellow guest stars included Al Sharpton and Wayne Newton, who at least share a similar taste in pompadours and amulets.
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But was it possible that the tall, handsome young lady with the sleek brown pompadour and a nose unmistakably and plebeianly Grant, who sat by the window doing something to a heap of lace and organdy in her lap, was the little curly-headed, sunburned sister of thirteen whom he remembered?
Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1904
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Just as the Hells Angels evolved from wild-at-heart pompadoured post-WWII flyboys, Lemmy's long hair 'n' leather aesthetic is an extension of the '50s greaser ethos, taken to its logical extreme.
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Cuthbert Gordon's petition to the Society of Artsincluded seventy-eight different samples of colors made from his discovery, cudbear, and he noted that certain quantities of this coloring material would make pompadour color. reference As a name for a color, pompadour first appeared in England in the mid 1750s.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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Badgley Mischka's campaign, inspired by a Dutchess of Devonshire fantasy, portrays a bride beneath a huge pompadour with leaves, feathers against a soft, gold background.
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A few larger birds are still present in Khao Ang Ru Nai, including, at least until the early 1990s, up to five pairs of woolly-necked stork (Ciconia episcopus, the last such remaining in Thailand), pompadour pigeon (Treron pompadora), and green imperial pigeon (Ducula aenea).
Chao Phraya lowland moist deciduous forests
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Petrone, with his jet-black pompadour and ever-present leather cat coat, was as much of a constant in the local rock and underground music scene as hangovers and bad sound checks.
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If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours.
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His hair is dyed black, and is styled in a pompadour, and he wears mutton-chop sideburns.
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These pompadoured locals strut along a very fine line, with psychobilly overkill on one side and castrated vanilla-billy on the other.
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You'd see Donny Dizman with his very round close-shaven head in the days that boys were barely out of pompadours.
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Red is the archeus, or principal colour in the tertiary _russet_; enters subordinately into the two other tertiaries, _citrine_ and _olive_; goes largely into the composition of the various hues and shades of the semi-neutral _marrone_ or chocolate, and its relations, puce, murrey, morelle, mordore, pompadour, &c.; and is more or less present in
Field's Chromatography or Treatise on Colours and Pigments as Used by Artists
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Skinny ties, slicked pompadours, and lots of lace turn excess into an understatement of seismic proportions.
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Presley's pompadoured locks were preserved.
Times, Sunday Times
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The depicted cameo bracelet is based (if somewhat loosely) on a piece of jewelry that Pompadour actually owned.
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Tall and heavily built, he had a pompadour of egg-white hair that made him look as if he had just been crowned with a large pavlova.
MURDER SONG
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One pound of cudbear will dye three pounds of wool a good pompadour, and nine pound does the same to twenty seven yards of superfine cloth.
The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
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They have similar pompadours and retro fashion styles, but these singers also seem well-matched as co-headliners, with separate but overlapping fan bases.
A Summer Sampler
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Gene Vincent's was greasy, James Brown's extravagantly pompadoured, Elvis's as carefully coiffed as the 18th green at Augusta.
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Feb. 28, 2011 marked the 25th anniversary of the release of "Pretty in Pink," the teen classic written by John Hughes about a thrift-store-chic girl (Molly Ringwald), a pastel-preppy guy (Andrew McCarthy) and the pompadoured geek (Jon Cryer) who wants to drive them apart.
John Hughes and the art his movies inspired
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I'm just going to focus on that glorious pompadour so that I don't have to look down at what appears to be a see-through faux-romper, mustard-colored capri leggings, and toeless booties the color of New York snow.
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From the Iron Cross t-shirts and the leather jackets to the greasy pompadours and rampant alcoholism, this is a high-octane outfit that would scare your mom and dad into thinking Eminem is a ‘nice boy?’
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He wore his hair in a pompadour and slung chains around his leather jacket.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1756 the question of Pompadour's use of rouge was a pressing one because it was directly related to the marquise's standing in the court, as was the ceremonial performance of her toilette.
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Joining the two other members of the camp staff, Jon Voigt is a particularly nasty delight as he struts around with a six-shooter and a greasy pompadour.
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Who needs a Subway Series when you've got the pompadoured rockabilly boys of Union Pool going head to head with the tattooed punk princes of Sweetwater in your own back yard?
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Add to that his Bond villain in Golden Eye, his scene-stealing creep in Circle of Friends and Gwyneth Paltrow's pompadoured pal in Emma and he proves himself not only eclectic but electric.
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Elliot - in a blond pompadour and soulful expression - is so sensitive that the sight of the sunset makes him weep with compassion for all of mankind and nature.
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Manager and band sport lacquered pompadours like thick medieval lances and long pointy shoes.
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Sneak a peek at practically any big-deal CEO, congressional heavy, media baron, talk-show yakker, pompadoured TV preacher, or any the other pushers of America's new ethic of grab-it-and-go greed.
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Again I gave a civil evasion to the girl's trivial question, and as I did so her companion, looking over her frowzy pompadour, stared at me with insolent familiarity.
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He has the clothes, the shoes, the pompadour, and the ‘strong, silent, coolness’ thing completely down cold.
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There was an atmosphere of the world about Sylvia which Mrs. Lem recognized at once from long experience with summer people; and secure in her pompadour, the psyche knot, and the shine of her best gown, she wished to show this young girl that her sophistication was shared even in a rural district.
The Opened Shutters
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His hair is a chestnut pompadour and he has a straggly moustache.
Times, Sunday Times
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While some tunes might suggest the hanging of the ten, others evoke sombrero-sporting mariachis and pompadoured teds, Martinis in the Boom-Boom Room or riding shotgun with Squinty Clint.
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The fact that so many people still wish Andie had ended up with her New Wave-ish, pompadoured best buddy speaks to how beloved and unforgettable Duckie turned out to be.
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Perhaps it's his glaring vanity - it is surely disingenuous for a man in his sixties to sport such a pompadour and pretend that he doesn't want it noticed.
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Le Mercier was a pickthank, angling after the favor of La Pompadour, -- a pretentious knave, as hollow as one of his own mortars.
The Golden Dog
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If local women venture onto the dusty streets at all, they sport ankle-length dresses, buttoned-up blouses and 1930s hairstyles with buns and pompadours.
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Although her enemies claimed that Pompadour was effectively procuress of the King's pleasures, it seems that the Marquise tolerated, rather than organised, the supply of such women.
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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
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The real news, however, is that Imelda Marcos - sometimes accused in the plot to assassinate Ninoy, and as lavishly pompadoured and aggressively fluttering as ever - also won her race for Congress.
Phil Bronstein: Ninoy, Noynoy, No-No.
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Note teasing of bangs at crown: lower part of the bang is brushed down across forehead; upper part is brushed upward in spiky faux pompadour.
Her Bad Hair | Her Bad Mother
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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
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The Johnnies debuted in 1962 at the Western Carnival, a week-long annual music festival in Tokyo's Nichigeki Theatre where pompadoured greasers played the newest styles.
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During the eighteenth century Madame de Pompadour, the mistress of Louis XV, was a frequent guest here; now, her favourite room with its canopied bed is yours for the asking.
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Basically the last thing I wanted was four guys in pompadours singing about cats and shoes.
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In Mine de Pompadour at Her Toilette the marquise is shown in the act of performing her toilette.
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Mr. Clarke was dressed in pompadour, with gold buttons; and his lovely Dolly in a smart checked lutestring, a present from her mistress.
The Life and Adventures of Sir Launcelot Greaves
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Why, there, if a college student comes downtown with a flareback coat and heart-shaped trousers and one of those nifty little pompadour hats that are brushed back from the brow to give the brains a chance to grow, they arrest him for collecting a crowd and disturbing traffic.
At Good Old Siwash
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One of Boucher's closest associates had been Diderot's protectress, Mme de Pompadour.
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He has donned conservative business suits, trimmed down, and carefully coifed his gray-specked pompadour trademark hairstyle.
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A big guy with tats and a rockabilly pompadour walks by.
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That pompadoured greaser mess looked like something out of RuPaul's The Outsiders.
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I saw a concert in Santa Barbara in 2002 and it was just an ocean of black pompadoured hair.
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I remember going down to [SoCal punk and rockabilly festival] Hootenany in '98; I had never seen so many custom cars, pompadours, and vintage-style tattoos in one place in my life.
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Marechale (de Mirepoix) had been extremely severe upon her, for what they called the baseness of her conduct, with regard to Madame de Pompadour.
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Toronto band Die Mannequin performed live for the show as male models with pompadours and funky glasses strutted down the runway in Bustle's poorly tailored suit separates.
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Now, the pompadoured billionaire and reality-TV star may have outplayed a much bigger rival in a bid for Ms. Kluge's crown jewel: her mansion.
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He also enraged the Marquise by referring to her as Petticoat III (Petticoats I and II being Maria-Theresa and the Empress Elizabeth of Russia) and by calling the wolfhound who slept in his bed his Pompadour.