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Pompadour

A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also much used adjectively.

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Coif 76% connected

A cap.

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Coiffure 76% connected

A headdress, or manner of dressing the hair.

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Style 76% connected

An instrument used by the ancients in writing on tablets covered with wax, having one of its ends sharp, and the other blunt, and somewhat expanded,…

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