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▪ I. pompadour, n.|ˈpɒmpədʊə(r)|
Also 8 pompedore.
After the Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of Louis XV (1721–64), used subst. and attrib. to designate fashions, a colour, etc.: either contemporary by way of compliment, or in later times with reference to the fashions of her time.
1. gen. Designating fashions of dress, hair-dressing, furniture, etc.: see quots.
1752Mrs. Delany in Life & Corr. (1861) III. 110, I think there is a time of life..when very gaudy entertainments are as unbecoming, as pink colour and pompadours! 1755Ibid. 321, I don't know what you mean by a pompadour, unless it is what we call in this part of the world a pelisse; which in plain English is a long cloak made of satin or velvet,..lined or trimmed with silk, satin, or fur,..with slits for the arms to come out and a head like a capuchin. 1756Univ. Mag. XIX. 133/2 No decent coif—but just before Was grandly plac'd a pompedore. 1765Ibid. XXXVII. 366/1 Much resembling the modern pompadour. 1849Sidonia Sorc. I. Pref. 9 In her hand she [Sidonia] carries a sort of pompadour of brown leather, of the most elegant form and finish. 1889‘J. S. Winter’ Mrs. Bob (1891) 77 She had a Pompadour stick with a big silver knob on top. 1885A. Edwardes Girton Girl I. xii. 238 It was not Louis Seize furniture, or Pompadour cabinets..that Marjorie missed. 1890Cent. Dict., Pompadour parasol, a form of parasol used by women about 1860, having a folding handle, and generally covered with moire antique, or other heavy silk. 1909Daily Chron. 17 Sept. 5/3 Charged..with stealing..two silver pompadour boxes. 1925O. Sitwell in E. Sitwell et al. Poor Young People 35 Through her pompadour-peruke. 1971S. Jepson Let. to Dead Girl xii. 143 She opened the skirt of a pompadour doll on a side table, pulled out a white telephone.
2. A shade of crimson or pink; also, a fabric of this colour. Also attrib.
1756Cowper in Connoisseur No. 119 ⁋9 His taylor..having dressed him in a snuff-coloured coat, instead of a pompadour. 1762Smollett Sir L. Greaves xxv. (1793) II. 272 Mr. Clarke was dressed in pompadour, with gold buttons. 1787‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsemen (1809) 31 He..ever recommended a coat of pompadour, or some conspicuous colour. 1840Hood Up Rhine 110 His coat was chocolate brown, with a pompadour velvet collar. 1896Daily News 29 May, The stall-holders will be in the dress of Irish peasants—green petticoats, pompadour polonaises, and kerchiefs worn picturesquely over their heads. 1968N.Y. City (Michelin Tire Corp.) 57 The most precious types of Sèvres porcelain, in the pink known as ‘Pompadour’. 1976N. Roberts Face of France x. 107 Balloons, scarlet, orange, blue and..Pompadour pink.
3. Designating a pattern consisting of sprigs of flowers in pink, blue, and sometimes gold, scattered on a white ground.
1807–8W. Irving Salmag. (1824) 146 My aunt..put on her pompadour taffeta gown, and sallied forth to lament the misfortune of her dear friend. 1835Court Mag. VI. Fashions p. ix/2 Pompadour satins, a white ground embroidered in bouquets of different flowers in colours, are much in request. 1889Pall Mall G. 9 Jan. 6/1 A very becoming loose cloak of some pompadour-looking material. 1902Westm. Gaz. 7 July 3/2 Wearing a delicately Pompadour-patterned muslin frock.
4. A tropical S. American bird (Xipholena pompadora), characterized by the brilliant crimson-purple hue of its plumage. Also attrib.
1759G. Edwards Gleanings III. 275–6 The Pompadour... Birds taken in a French prize... They were said to be for Madam Pompadour. It being a Bird of excessive beauty, I hope that Lady will forgive me for calling it by her name... Mr. Brisson..calls it Cotinga Pourpre. 1871W. H. G. Kingston Banks of Amazon (1876) 462 The delicate white wings and claret-coloured plumage of a lovely pompadour would glance from the foliage. 1893Newton Dict. Birds 86 Xipholena pompadora—known as the Pompadour Chatterer, is of a hue scarcely to be seen in any other bird.
5. a. U.S. A fashion of dressing men's hair. Also advb.
1887Evening Sun (N.Y.) 15 Apr. 3/4 A tall, slender young man, with a full blonde beard and pompadour hair. 1895Weekly Examiner (San Francisco) 19 Sept. 1/7 Henry Jacob has a pompadour and a profile not unlike Durrant's. 1905News (Malden, Mass.) in Westm. Gaz. 7 Nov. 12/1 Because Congressman Roberts has been so successful a campaigner and still had his hair cut pompadour, it does not follow that General Bartlett can win with his hair cut banged. 1920S. Lewis Main St. 76 The meek ambitiousness..clouded like an aura his pale face, flap ears, and sandy pompadour. 1955W. Gaddis Recognitions i. vi. 208 His hair, a shiny black pompadour which he wore like a hat. 1976New Yorker 24 May 107/1 Reagan looks good at the rostrum: a tall figure with ruddy cheeks, his reddish-brown hair swept back in a slight pompadour.
b. A style of arranging women's hair, in which it is turned back off the forehead in a roll, sometimes over a pad. Also attrib.
1899Westm. Gaz. 11 May 4/2 The hairdresser..might..cease to coax us to the conviction that a..pompadour puff of his manufacture were better. 1901Daily News 23 Mar. 6/6 The hair dressed low in the neck and arranged in a Pompadour roll round the face. 1904Daily Chron. 7 Oct. 8/5 It is absolutely impossible for a woman..to produce the strange erections known to-day as Pompadours, Regency curls, &c., naturally. 1975J. Drummond Slowly the Poison i. 97 Her hair..was not worn in the current high pompadour style, but cut short.
▪ II. ˈpompadour, v.
[f. pompadour n. 5.]
trans. To dress (hair) in the pompadour style; to arrange (hair) in a pompadour. Chiefly as pa. pple. or ppl. adj.
1908London Opinion 22 Aug. 362/2 She was large, plumply built, with grey hair artfully pompadoured and undulated. 1909L. M. Montgomery Anne of Avonlea xiv. 153 Gertie Pye swept in, pompadoured and frilled. a1913F. Rolfe Desire & Pursuit of Whole (1934) xvii. 178 Some pretentious pompadoured image trailing satin. 1957V. J. Kehoe Technique Film & Television Make-Up ix. 111 Other tribes pompadoured the front of the hair and had two side partings. 1971Daily Tel. (Colour Suppl.) 3 Sept. 42/4 They wore their hair very long, very high, pompadoured, swept up..and back. 1973R. Rosenblum Mushroom Cave (1974) 18 The squat bully with greasy pompadoured black hair. |