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
In one such instance, the official “Barbie” movie account responded to a fan-made image depicting Barbie with an atom bomb bouffant with the comment, “This Ken is a stylist.”
From New York Times ● Aug. 1, 2023
My mother, Joanne Misako Oyabe at the time, followed typical American fashions — bouffant hairdos and all — and Christianity, becoming a devout Roman Catholic and attending Maryknoll schools.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 16, 2023
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
