Crossword-Solution: POMPADOUR
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| Pompadour | 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. |
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| Elvis Presley feature | 1 answer |
| Extravagant quiff | 1 answer |
| French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced | 1 answer |
| Hairstyle named after a mistress of Louis XV | 1 answer |
| Lover of Louis XV | 1 answer |
| Upswept hairstyle | 1 answer |
| Voluminous hairstyle popularized in the 18th century | 1 answer |
| Hairstyle | 24 answers |
| Hairdo | 28 answers |
| Hair __ | 61 answers |
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The old plural of Eye.
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Sentences with POMPADOUR (5)
She wears her yellow hair in a high pompadour, and is bedecked with rings and chains and “beauty pins.” Her tight, high-heeled shoes give her an awkward walk, and she is always more or less preoccupied with her clothes.
Nathanmeyer was a heavy, powerful old Jewess, with a great pompadour of white hair, a swarthy complexion, an eagle nose, and sharp, glittering eyes.
The women, on the contrary, wore their hair "a la pompadour;" the coarse kinky locks were sometimes a foot or more above their heads, and trained square or round like a boxwood bush.
Here, outside, in the light and the shade and the heat, there was a great tinkling of the bells of innumerable streetcars, and a constant strolling and shuffling and rustling of many pedestrians, a large proportion of whom were young women in Pompadour-looking dresses.
Gerard had come to the entrees--Londonderry pheasants, escallops of duck, and rissolettes a la pompadour.
Quotes with POMPADOUR (3)
I like the Victory rolls, beehive, pompadour - all of that stuff. It's just cool. And actually, with ethnic hair, oddly enough, it works so well because I don't have to tease my hair to get body.
When I was about 19, my stepmother said - because this was back in the '80s - that I had Robert Wagner's pompadour. I said, 'What are you talking about? You mean the guy from 'Hart to Hart?'
You would be amazed at the pompadour that I was rocking in the first job I had on the soap opera called 'Loving,' my first contract job.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2005–2023).