Pompadour

Pronunciation

• RP IPA: /ˈpÉ’mpÉ™dÊŠÉ™/, /ˈpÉ’mpÉ™dɔː/
• US IPA: /ˈpɑːmpÉ™dɔːr/

Alternative forms

• pompador nonstandard

Origin

From Pompadour, after Madame de Pompadour (1721–1764), mistress of .

Full definition of pompadour

Noun

1. A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
2. A men's hairstyle of the 1950s.
3. A crimson or pink colour.
• 1812, George Shaw, ‎James Francis Stephens, General Zoology: pt. 1. Aves (page 409)... head, neck, and whole under parts fine but very deep crimson or pompadour-colour ...

Synonyms

• man's hairstyle: do, ducktail, quiff

Verb

1. To style hair into a pompadour
• But by mid-afternoon we had both grown tired of putting on and taking off the clothes my mother and Beata had made for Lillian Russell, and of taking down and pompadouring again the wig Beata had turned backside front so it should be long where ladies' hair was supposed to be long.