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
a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the forehead French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764) style women's hair in a pompadour
French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)