pompadour
/ˈpɑːmpədɔːɹ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.33 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
Example Sentences
- "Squat and perspiring, with a low pompadour and a thin black mustache, he was inevitably disheveled by evening."
- "The Donald's strange pompadour and Hillary's strange server have eclipsed all the usual primary permutations."
- "[…] head, neck, and whole under parts fine but very deep crimson or pompadour-colour […]"
- "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."
- "1976-1977, Lou Sullivan, personal diary, quoted in 2019, Ellis Martin, Zach Ozma (editors), We Both Laughed In Pleasure I parted my hair back and smoothed it instead of pompadouring it."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈpɑːmpədɔːɹ/
- British English: /ˈpɒmpədʊə/