pouf
noun
a high headdress with the hair rolled in puffs, worn by women in the late 18th century.
pouffy
-
a word derived from
pouf.
Example Sentences
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It was a time when every presentation sparkled with the possibility of a glamorous TV shoot, and every first dinner with a guy could wind up with me wearing a pouffy white dress.
From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2024
“Tim White, who is Beyoncé’s tailor, and the whole wardrobe department literally wanted to kill me with all the pouffy sleeves I kept asking for. And now look! I’m so validated.”
From The Guardian ● Sep. 29, 2017
But for an equal number of people it’s a time of dread, weighed down by pouffy dresses, ill-timed rain showers and cringe after cringe spawned from lame toasts.
From New York Times ● Jun. 15, 2012
In shrunken toggle coats and short, pouffy skirts, the models had a sort of retro ingénue quality and looked like adolescent Catherine Deneuves playing provincial girls freshly arriving in bustling Paris.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 3, 2011
Derrida has impossibly spiky yet pouffy, radiantly snow white Beckett-meets-punk-rocker hair.
From Time Magazine Archive
