bouffant skirt

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• bouffant — ouffant adj. being puffed out; used mostly of hair style, and sometimes clothing; as, a bouffant hairdo; a bouffant skirt. Syn: puffy. [WordNet 1.5 +PJC] || …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• bouffant — bouffancy /booh feuhn see/, n. /booh fahnt , booh fahnt/; Fr. /booh fahonn /, adj. 1. puffed out; full: a bouffant skirt. n. 2. a woman s hair style in which the hair is teased to give an overall puffed out appearance and often combed to frame… …   Universalium

• bouffant — bouf•fant [[t]buˈfɑnt, ˈbu fɑnt[/t]] adj. 1) clo puffed out; full: a bouffant skirt[/ex] 2) clo a woman s hairstyle in which the hair is teased to give an overall puffed out appearance • Etymology: 1875–80; < F: lit., swelling …   From formal English to slang

• skirt — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. overskirt, kilt, petticoat, farthingale, coattail; purlieu, borderland, edge, margin, outskirts; slang, woman, girl. See clothing, female. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. kilt, fustanella, kirtle, petticoat,… …   English dictionary for students

• bouffant —    (boo FANH) [French: swelling] Puffed out or flaring, as a skirt. A hairstyle in which the hair is teased to form a puffed, rounded shape over the forehead and temples, or over the entire head.    The role called for bleached blonde bouffant… …   Dictionary of foreign words and phrases

• bouffant —   a. puffed out, as a skirt, hair, etc …   Dictionary of difficult words

• bouf|fant — «boo FAHNT; French boo fahn», adjective, noun. –adj. puffed out; billowy: »a bouffant skirt, a bouffant hairdo. –n. a woman s puffed out hairdo: »... a lady in the audience who wore a mink jacket and a big bouffant (Harper s). ╂[< French… …   Useful english dictionary

• clothing — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Wearing apparel Nouns 1. clothing, clothes, apparel, wear, dress, attire, array, raiment, garments, garb, costume, outfit, habiliment, habit, rig, ensemble, caparison, drapery, toilette, fig, wardrobe,… …   English dictionary for students

• bouf·fant — /buˈfɑːnt, Brit ˈbuːˌfɒŋ/ adj : having a full and rounded shape a bouffant skirt usually used to refer to a hairstyle in which the hair is up and away from the head in a full, rounded shape bouffant hairdos from the 1950s …   Useful english dictionary

• robe de style — dəstēl noun (plural robes de style “) Etymology: French : a usually long formal gown with a tight bodice and a bouffant skirt …   Useful english dictionary

• List of fashion topics — This is a list of topics related to fashion, many of which do not yet have Wikipedia articles. NOTOC 0 9 1300 1400 in fashion 1500 1550 in fashion 1600 1650 in fashion 1700 1750 in fashion 1795 1820 in fashion 20th century fashion A A line A line …   Wikipedia