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bouffant

[boo-fahnt, boo-fahnt, boo-fahn] / buˈfɑnt, ˈbu fɑnt, buˈfɑ̃ /


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Cruise ship passengers were pictured wearing blue gowns, bouffant caps, and medical face masks as they disembarked on Sunday at the port of Grandilla de Abona in Tenerife.

From BBC May 11, 2026

James Whale’s 1935 freakquel, “Bride of Frankenstein,” imagined the companion briefly alive, sporting a white-streaked, electric-shocked bouffant before being killed by the Monster moments after her genesis.

From Salon Mar. 8, 2026

As a teenager, Berman, who wore her dark hair in a bouffant, worked part time in a department store along Broadway.

From Los Angeles Times Mar. 31, 2023

“Even as the ball rolled into the hole, she would shake her lacquered bouffant in disgust and mutter in her Southwest twang that she didn’t deserve a good score.”

From Washington Post Dec. 27, 2022

Her head tilted from side to side, her mile-high bouffant swinging along.

From "Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence" by Sonja Thomas




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