French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)
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a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead
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style women's hair in a pompadour
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Pompadour \Pom"pa*dour\, n. A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.
He was the most outrageous of the early rockers with a 6-inch pompadour, pancake makeup, a pencil-thin mustache and an all-out attack on the piano.
By STANLEY D. MILLER= You say your sneer's a little crooked, your pompadour's a little flat and _ gasp, what would the King think _ you've forgotten the words to "Don't Be Cruel"? No problem.