updo

[uhp-doo]

noun

plural

updos 

1. a hairdo that is combed or brushed up, away from the face.

Word History and Origins

Origin of updo¹

up(swept) + (hair)do

Example Sentences

It’s why she felt liberated to create the faux world of Gollum Corp Enterprises, for which she poses in corporate offices with pushpins tacked into her acrylics and jams a ruler and scissors into her updo.

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Out of the stoveside scrum steps a 30-something giving Audrey Hepburn vibes in a red shirt dress, pot-leaf print apron and a relaxed updo held in place with a white plastic clip.

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The series is not exactly chock full of revelations, unless you consider it newsworthy that Carmen, the eldest of their children, refers to her messy updo as a “butt cheek bun,” or that Alec has a severe allergy to cats, despite owning four of them.

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Then the director introduced Megan, regally dressed in a royal blue silk gown and sporting an updo.

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“Maybe it’s just the way I am,” she said, sitting in her office wearing an immaculate white dress and her hair styled in an elegant updo.

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