bouffant

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 the face.
[1875-80; < F: lit., swelling (bouff(er) to swell + -ant -ANT)]

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