bouffant

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(UK) IPA^(key): /ˈbuːfɑ̃/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(US) enPR: bo͞o-fäntʹ, IPA^(key): /buˈfɑːnt/ or enPR: bo͞oʹfänt, IPA^(key): /ˈbufɑːnt/
Rhymes: -ɒnt

bouffant (comparative more bouffant, superlative most bouffant)

Of hair or clothing, full-bodied or puffy; puffed out away from head or body.
Her bouffant suit made her seem much heavier than her petite figure actually was.

bouffant (plural bouffants)

A puffy, round hairstyle, popular in the mid-to-late 16th century, characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.
- 2009 October 29, David Walliams [pseudonym; David Edward Williams], Mr Stink, London: HarperCollins Children’s Books, →ISBN:
  Mother went a little pale. “Preposterous!” she said. “I don’t know what’s got into you!” She fiddled with her bouffant, almost as if she was nervous.
- 2023 November 30, Matt Phillips, “Shane MacGowan, Songwriter Who Fused Punk and Irish Rebellion, Is Dead at 65”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:
  But by the early 1980s the energy had largely drained from the punk movement, giving way to the synthesizers, eyeliner and bouffants of so-called New Romantic bands like Duran Duran and Adam and the Ants.