pompadour

Other forms of pompadour

plural

pompadours·

past tense

pompadoured·

present participle

pompadouring·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about pompadour

What does pompadour mean?

pompadour means "French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose policies she influenced (1721-1764)". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in pompadour?

pompadour has 3 syllables: pom-pa-dour. The stress falls on "pom". In IPA it is /ˈpɑmpədɔɹ/.

What is another word for pompadour?

Close synonyms include Marquise de Pompadour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is pompadour a common word?

pompadour is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.