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pompador

pompador is the nonstandard spelling of pompadour.

Meaning of pompadour

Noun

pompadour (plural pompadours)

  1. A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
  2. A men's hairstyle of the 1950s.
    • Squat and perspiring, with a low pompadour and a thin black mustache, he was inevitably disheveled by evening.2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 17
    Synonyms:
    do, ducktail, quiff
  3. A crimson or pink colour.
    • […] head, neck, and whole under parts fine but very deep crimson or pompadour-colour […]1812, George Shaw, James Francis Stephens, General Zoology: pt. 1. Aves, page 409
  4. A corsage with low square neck.
  5. A pattern for silk, with leaves and flowers in pink, blue, and gold.
  6. (UK, historical, slang) A member of the 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, an infantry regiment in the British Army, active from 1755 to 1881.

See all 7 meanings of pompadour

Forms of pompador

Noun
pluralpompadors
Verb
third-person singular presentpompadors
present participlepompadoring
past participlepompadored
pastpompadored

Questions about pompador

What is pompador the nonstandard spelling of?
Pompador is the nonstandard spelling of pompadour.

Words near pompador in the dictionary

  1. pomp
  2. pomp and circumstance
  3. Pompa
  4. pompadom
  5. pompadoms
  6. pompador
  7. pompadors
  8. pompadour
  9. pompadour fish
  10. pompadour fishes
  11. pompadoured

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