Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun pompadour
2 senses of pompadour
Sense 1
Pompadour, Marquise de Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson -- (French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764))
INSTANCE OF=> marchioness, marquise -- (a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess)
Sense 2
pompadour -- (a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead)
=> hairdo, hairstyle, hair style, coiffure, coif -- (the arrangement of the hair (especially a woman's hair))
Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb pompadour
1 sense of pompadour
Sense 1
pompadour -- (style women's hair in a pompadour)
=> style -- (make consistent with a certain fashion or style; "Style my hair"; "style the dress")