bouffant

Example Sentences

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Jay, with his bouffant curly hair and preternatural ability to remember the smallest details, became a de facto musical matchmaker.

From Los Angeles Times

Nan Kempner sat nearby and so, too, did the fashion plate and philanthropist Judith Peabody, crowned with her signature bouffant nimbus.

From New York Times

They may not be as bouffant as Bertha Russell's but they are still perky.

From Salon

The only thing I used to use when I first started getting this 'bouffant', as they call it in France, was warm water and sugar.

From BBC

He talked about how, as a child, he would don a bouffant wig and perform Rizzo’s songs from “Grease,” making his grandmother laugh so hard that she nearly wet herself.

From New York Times