bouffant

Example Sentences

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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

She certainly had a steady personal style; she never changed her bouffant hairstyle with its little flip, and to my eye always looked like a glamorous version of a 1950s housewife.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 29, 2023

Ryan Nelson renders upswept hair with precisely inked lines in his depiction of a woman that focuses on her bouffant.

From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022

“Marcia, are you going to bottle your secret?” a woman whom Ifemelu did not know asked, her bleached hair bouffant like a platinum helmet.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie