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

Roan’s fiery hair is piled in a foot-high bouffant above a rhinestone tiara, her face layered in kabuki-like powder.

From Salon • Feb. 19, 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

“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

He liked the verve of her bouffant wigs, the drawl of her native Mississippi, as well as the severe eyeglass frames that belied the warmth in her eyes.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie