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Definition: Pompadour |
PompadourNoun1. French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764). 2. A hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead. Verb1. Style women's hair in a pompadour. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "Pompadour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1781. (references) |
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Biographical Satire | POMPADOUR, Madame, coiffeur, Queen of France. Said to have been a peach. Was a great friend of Louis XV, and helped make the dances at Versailles a success. Ambition: Plenty of hair. Recreation: Versailles. Address: See Louis. Clubs: Anti. Source: Who was Who: 5000BC - 1914. |
Literature | Pompadour as a colour, is claret purple. The 56th Foot is called the Pompadours, from the claret facings of their regimental uniforms. There is an old song supposed to be an elegy on John Broadwood, a Quaker, which introduces the word:- "Sometimes he wore an old brown coat, Sometimes a pompadore. Sometimes 't was buttoned up behind. And sometimes down before." Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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Synonyms: PompadourSynonyms: Jeanne Antoinette Poisson (n), Marquise de Pompdour (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Pompadour |
| Specialty definitions using "Pompadour": After us, the Deluge ♦ Dying Sayings ♦ LOUIS XV ♦ POMPADOUR. (references) |
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Lyrics | Oh, I combed my hair in a pompadour (Keeping The Faith; performing artist: Billy Joel) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Madame Pompadour (1960) Die Pompadour (1935) Un caprice de la Pompadour (1930) Die Marquise von Pompadour (1930) | |
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| "Pompadour" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 50.00% of the time. "Pompadour" is used about 10 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (proper) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Noun (singular) | 50% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Total | 100.00% | 10 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "Pompadour": rose de Pompadour. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
pompadour | 42 |
madame de pompadour | 33 |
marquise de pompadour | 16 |
madame pompadour | 12 |
la pompadour | 10 |
hair pompadour style | 8 |
hair pompadour | 6 |
antique furniture pompadour | 3 |
pompadour tea | 2 |
de history madame pompadour | 2 |
moss pompadour rose rosenthal | 2 |
picture pompadour | 2 |
donatella pompadour | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "Pompadour"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كوافير. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | прическа помпадур. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | coiffure. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | φουντωτό κτένισμα. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | kefehaj (crew cut, crewcut), sopf, kivágott nyak, erős rózsaszín. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | ompadourpay светло-розовый оттенок. (various references) pompadura, pompadur, ružičasta boja (rose, rose color, rose colour). (various references) copete (crest, forelock, quiff, tuft). (various references) pompadourfrisyr. (various references) малиновий колір (crimson). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Words beginning with "Pompadour": pompadoured, pompadours. (additional references) | |
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"Pompadour" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: pompadoor, pompador, pompadore, pompadou, pompadous, pompidou, Pompodour, ponpadour, popadum. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "Pompadour" (pronounced 'Pom"pa*dour'): Mokadour, Pandour, Reddour, troubadour. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-m-o-o-p-p-r-u" | |
-3 letters: maduro, uropod. | |
-4 letters: amour, douma, doura, droop, duomo, mudra, odour, promo, proud, purda. | |
-5 letters: apod, arum, damp, doom, door, dopa, dorm, dorp, doum, dour, dram, drop, drum, duma, dump, dura, duro, maud, mood, moor, mora, mura, odor, orad, ordo, pard, pomp, pood, poop, poor, pour, pram, prao, prau, proa, prod, prom, prop, puma. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-m-o-o-p-p-r-u" | |
+1 letter: pompadours. | |
+2 letters: pompadoured. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)50 6F 6D 70 61 64 6F 75 72 |
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references).--. --- -- .--. .- -.. --- ..- .-. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010000 01101111 01101101 01110000 01100001 01100100 01101111 01110101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)P o m p a d o u r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0050 006F 006D 0070 0061 0064 006F 0075 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)508179826770818784 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Arabic | معجم, قاموس, الوضوحية في الشيء, حد, تحديد, تعريف, التحديد, الإيضاحية, ترجمة من لغة أجنبية للغة الأم, ترجمة, إفتتان | العربية, عربي, اللغة العربية, арабски език, арабски, arabe, αραβικόσ, arab, арабский, arapski, árabe, arabisk, арабська мова, арабський |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | البلغارية, بلغاري, български, български език, българин, 'ούλγαρος, bolgár, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgar, болгарський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | اللغة الفرنسية, فرنسي, الشعب الفرنسي, френски език, френски, français, γαλλικόσ, γαλλική γλώσσα, γαλλίδα, γάλλοσ, francia, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransk, franska, французька мова, французький |
Greek | λεξικό, ορισμός, μετάφραση | يوناني, اللغة اليونانية, الإغريقي, гръцки език, гръцки, грък, grec, ελληνικόσ, 'Ελληνας, görög, греческий, грек, grčki, grk, grčki jezik, griego, grek, грецький, гречанка, грецька мова |
Hungarian | szótár, meghatározás, definíció, fordítás | مجري, المجري, الهنغاري, هنغاري, اللغة الهنغارية, унгарски език, унгарски, унгарец, hongrois, Ούγγρος, magyar, венгр, венгерский, mađarski jezik, mađarski, mađar, húngaro, ungrare, угорська мова, угорський, угорка, угорець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | روسي, اللغة الروسية, الروسية, руски език, руски, руснак, Ρώσος, orosz, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, ryss, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski, serbokroatiska, serbokroatisk |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | اللغة الأسبانية, الأسبانية, أسباني, испански език, испански, espagnol, ισπανικά, ισπανικόσ, ισπανοί, spanyol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, spanska språk, spansk, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Swedish | ordbok, lexikon, översättning | اللغة السويدية, шведски, шведски език, швед, suédois, σουηδικόσ, σουηδικά, svéd, шведский, švedski jezik, švedski, sueco, svensk, шведська мова, шведський |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | أوكراني أحد أبناء أوكرانيا, الأوكراني, украинец, украински език, ukrainien, ουκρανικόσ, Ουκρανός, ουκρανόσ, ukrán, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukrainare, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | الإنجليزية, الأنكليزي, إنكليزي, ترجمة إنكليزية, اللغة الإنكليزية, английски език, английски, англичаните, anglais, εγγλέζοσ, αγγλικόσ, angol, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, engelsk, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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