Usually means: Voluminous hairstyle named after mistress.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. Pompadour, pompadour: Merriam-Webster
  2. Pompadour, pompadour: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. pompadour: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. pompadour: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Pompadour, pompadour: Vocabulary.com
  6. Pompadour, pompadour: Wordnik
  7. pompadour: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. pompadour: Wiktionary
  9. pompadour: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pompadour: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pompadour: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pompadour, pompadour: Dictionary.com
  13. pompadour: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Pompadour (haircut), Pompadour (hairstyle), Pompadour: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pompadour: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pompadour: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pompadour: Rhymezone
  18. Pompadour: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pompadour: FreeDictionary.org
  20. pompadour: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. Pompadour: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. Pompadour: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. pompadour: A Word A Day
  2. pompadour: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. pompadour: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FASHION AND DESIGN (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (pompadour)

noun:  A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
noun:  A men's hairstyle of the 1950s.
noun:  A crimson or pink colour.
noun:  A corsage with low square neck.
noun:  A pattern for silk, with leaves and flowers in pink, blue, and gold.
noun:  (UK, military, slang, historical) A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.
verb:  To style hair into a pompadour

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