pompadouring
pompadouring is the present participle and gerund of pompadour.
Meaning of pompadour
Verb
pompadour (third-person singular simple present pompadours, present participle pompadouring, simple past and past participle pompadoured)
- To style hair into a pompadour
- But by mid-afternoon we had both grown tired of putting on and taking off the clothes my mother and Beata had made for Lillian Russell, and of taking down and pompadouring again the wig Beata had turned backside front so it should be long where ladies' hair was supposed to be long.1944, Skulda V. Banér, Latchstring Out, page 33
Questions about pompadouring
- What is pompadouring the present participle and gerund of?
- Pompadouring is the present participle and gerund of pompadour.
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