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‖ bouffant(e, a.|bufɑ̃, -ɑ̃t|
[F. bouffant, -ante, pr. pple. of bouffer to swell.]
a. Dressmaking. Puffed out, bulging.
1880Cassell's Mag. June 441 Dress improvers are coming in..and all the Parisian short dresses are more or less bouffante. 1883Ibid. Nov. 756/2 Mantles..are..quite short at the back, and bouffant.
b. Of a hair-style: puffed out; arranged in a swelling or fluffy style. Hence as n., such a hair-style.
1955Vanity Fair's Guide for Bride 52 René..designed a simple hairstyle... Watch that smooth but bouffant silhouette. 1959S. Gibbons Pink Front Door xx. 232 Her eyes glistened dreamily within their little burrow of white wool and bouffant fair hair. 1959Sunday Times 27 Sept. 21/1 The bouffant, hair-styler's joy and milliner's grief. 1966Economist 9 Apr. 130/1 Since lofty bouffant hairdos have long been favoured here, Spain had a head start in the manufacture of..switches, chignons, postiches, wiglets and wigs. |