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bouffant

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


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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

His bushy moustache and black bouffant hair with a trademark white streak at the front made him one of the most recognisable - and impersonated - stars of the era on ITV.

From BBC • Feb. 19, 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

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