As for Madame Deberle and Pauline, they had taken hold of Lucien, and were making him turn between them, while excitedly discussing the question of hisPompadour dress.
As a matter of fact, a dress in the Pompadour style, white satin embroidered with posies, would be altogether charming.
Maria Theresa and our good Pompadour are both agreed in the matter, and in taking this course are both acting against their own will.
And the cardinal began to read anew the letter of Madame de Pompadour which a French courier had brought him a few hours before.
Madame Pompadour had possessed a larger library, that of Madame Du Barry was the better selected.
When my trunks and boxes had been piled up there, with the deck chair balancing precariously atop, and with Romoldo reclining luxuriously in it, his distraught pompadourwas about on a level with the top of the smokestack.
Arrived at Nevers, and lodged in a hostelrie, they thought it would not be well to commit themselves further without more certain security: Madame de Pompadour therefore proposed to M.
Mantua, and although he strongly objected to this, everybody quitted the room, leaving only the newly married couple there, and Madame de Pompadour outside upon the step listening to what passed between them.
She had on her best silk waist and her blond pompadour was brushed higher than ever.
She had a high fluffy pompadour and a half discoverable smile which could be brought to a very agreeable laugh if one spent a little pains at it.
You mind your own business or I'll give that pompadour of yours a frizzle!
It was the period of pompadour and false hair and Rosie and Terence, following Jack's finger, saw a new cluster of shiny black curls in Ellen's already elaborate coiffure.
In one of them Madame de Pompadourbarely escaped with her life, [Footnote: This was on the afternoon of the famous ball given by the Pompadour in honor of the new Duchess of Ormskirk.
But the Prince had taken her fingers and he kissed them quite as though they had been the finger-tips of the all-powerful Pompadour at Versailles yonder.
Meanwhile he was a prisoner, Pelham's hands were tied, and Newcastle was a fool, and the Pompadour was disastrously remote from being a fool.
So the Pompadour has kindly tendered him the loan of certain dragoons?
Ah, yes, Gaston is undoubtedly a peer of France, but thePompadour is queen of that kingdom.
And in consequence--on the day that Madame de Pompadour learns of your death,--Gaston goes to the Bastile.
The Pompadour was, in the eyes of the law, at least, the daughter of Francois Poisson.
Mme de Pompadour lived there and had the doors beautifully painted.
La Pompadour died at Versailles, but by her express wish her body was taken to Paris and laid in this her Paris home before the funeral.
The power of Madame de Pompadour may be imagined when we learn that Maria Theresa, empress and proud daughter of the Caesars, when she needed the friendship of Louis XIV.
A king absolutely indifferent to conditions in his kingdom, immersed in debasing pleasures, while Madame de Pompadour actually ruled the state--this is not the worst they would have seen!
Birdie was fourteen and wore French heels and a pompadour and had beaux.
It was a certain independent verve, a high-headed indifference, that made her reject even the attentions of the rink-master, a superior person boasting a pompadour and a turquoise ring.
The curve of her pompadourand the curves of her figure were too aggressively spherical.
Miss Murphy, holding her wheaten-red pompadour down in the wind.
That word said quite by chance, and the double meaning of which I did not understand, made at once an important personage of me, and everybody in the box of Madame de Pompadour was curious to know me.
At noon Madame de Pompadour passed through the private apartments with the Prince de Soubise, and my patron hastened to point me out to the illustrious lady.
Madame de Pompadour sent a small phial of it to M.
My answer, rather a sharp one, made Madame de Pompadour laugh, and she asked me whether I truly came from down there.
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The fact remains that a sleeveless gown, cut in a Pompadour form, is far more of a revelation of figure than a low-necked dinner-dress properly made.
Mary Hope was picking small lumps of dirt out of her hair, which she wore in a pompadour that disclosed a very nice forehead.
Madame dePompadour took a part in it in a private performance.
That formidable order had offended Madame de Pompadour by a refusal to recognise her power and position,--a manly policy, as creditable to their moral vigour as it was contrary to the maxims which had made them powerful.
Then she took the battered old felt hat from the closet, and tried to fasten it on; but the pompadour interfered.
Her hair was brushed over her face, and curled on a hot iron, and brushed backward in a perfect mat, and then puffed out in a bigger pompadour than usual.
For Noah was becoming anxious about his pompadour and could not refrain from examining it at frequent intervals.
The blond Pompadour had the idea of introducing into the salons a troop of living, sad-eyed sheep, combed and curled like the poodles in the carriages of the fashionables in the Bois to-day.
Madame de Maintenon," said de Musset, "made of Versailles an oratory, but La Pompadour turned it into a boudoir.
Here it was that his favourites Madame de Chateauroux, Madame de Pompadour and Madame du Barry found themselves most at home.
There is a legend about a meeting between La Pompadour and the king at Bagatelle, a meeting in which she established herself so firmly in the graces of the monarch that on the morrow she formed a part of the entourage at Versailles.
The Doctor ran his hand over his graying pompadour and smiled and shook his head.
The Doctor's tones were harsh, and with the amiable cast off his face his graying blondpompadour hair seemed to bristle militantly.
But before the chair announced the vote the pompadour of the little man rose quickly as he stood in the middle aisle and asked in his piping treble for a vote by wards and precincts.
It has escaped the attention of writers who have reproduced this lively scene, that Madame de Pompadour was dead before the volumes containing Powder and Rouge were born.
It is to be said that even in these bad days when religion meant cruelty and cabal, the one or two men who boldly withstood to the face the king and the Pompadour for the vileness of their lives, were priests of the church.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pompadour" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
