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pompadour noun [ ˈpɒmpədɔː ]

• a woman's hairstyle in which the hair is turned back off the forehead in a roll.
• "she combed her hair into a high, curly pompadour"

pompadour verb

• arrange (hair) in a pompadour.
• "when they sent him to get his hair pompadoured like Elvis Presley, he sauntered away from the movie business"
Origin: late 19th century: named after Madame de Pompadour (see Pompadour, Marquise de).


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