Bouffant

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • adj. Puffed-out; full: a bouffant hair style.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adj. Of hair or clothing, full-bodied or puffy; puffed out away from head or body.
  • n. A popular hairstyle in the mid-to-late 16th century, nowadays common with poodles.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adj. being puffed out; -- used mostly of hair style, and sometimes clothing; ; a bouffant skirt.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Puffed out: as, a skirt very bouffant at the back.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a woman's hairstyle in which the hair gives a puffy appearance
  • adj. being puffed out; used of hair style or clothing
    • Equivalent
    big    large   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    hairdo    hairstyle    hair style    coiffure    coif   
    Cross Reference
    bouffanty    bouffant cap   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    puffy   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    twenty-third-century    slicked-back    carroty    pinned-up    pageboy   
     
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