How to Use bouffant in a Sentence

bouffant

adjective
  • From bouffant to mock turtleneck collar to light pastel shade.
    Vanessa Friedman, New York Times, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Day fully committed to this retro suit-dress, from her bouffant to her matching, classic red lip.
    Cara Kelly, USA TODAY, 28 Jan. 2018
  • From bouffant to beehive, and everything in between, here are Jackie O’s best hair moments of all time.
    Jenna Rennert, Vogue, 23 June 2017
  • Kim’s short and pudgy father Kim Jong Il was reported to have favored platform shoes and a bouffant hairstyle to appear taller.
    Washington Post, 12 June 2018
  • Jackie was resplendent in an ivory silk portrait-neckline dress with a bouffant skirt designed by Ann Lowe.
    Alexandra MacOn, Vogue, 12 Sep. 2017
  • She’s never seen without a perfectly teased and backcombed bouffant — on the red carpet, at dinner parties, or on TV.
    Samantha Lee, The Cut, 4 Apr. 2018
  • Meet Baby Chanco, a seventh-month-old infant who is entering social media fame, thanks to her bouffant-level hair.
    Chloe Metzger, Marie Claire, 25 July 2018
  • But compared with the turbans, kimonos, fishnet masks, leather harnesses and bouffant wigs he's paraded on red carpets, today's threads are subdued.
    Amy Nicholson, chicagotribune.com, 3 July 2018
  • While the plot delves into deeper issues of addiction, depression and drama, the wardrobe of the leading ladies features a pastel palette, mini skirts, '60s bouffant hair and baby doll dresses.
    Lauren Alexis Fisher, Harper's BAZAAR, 27 Jan. 2015
  • The film honors Rose Marie’s devotion to her big-band musician husband, Bobby Guy, whose early death is the reason a black ribbon routinely is part of her trademark bouffant hairstyle.
    Washington Post, 4 Nov. 2017
  • But the Dior style telegraphs a very particular, 1950s vision of womanhood (as did the First Lady’s bouffant updo), which resonates with the state of American politics today.
    Rhonda Garelick, The Cut, 21 July 2017
  • But Kendall switched things up for her latest Instagram snapshots, instead giving flashes of '60s style cues like a beehive/bouffant updo, as well as cute leopard print and gingham intimates.
    Lilian Min, Cosmopolitan, 22 June 2017
  • This notion of Trump as a drag queen is a common punch line, thanks not only to his Technicolor tan, bouffant hair, and love of insults, but also to his exaggerated display of masculinity.
    Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 16 May 2017
  • Eustis has cast Caesar, played by Gregg Henry in a bouffant blond wig, as Trump—vulgar, contradictory, self-regarding, and overweening.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 7 June 2017
  • Would traditionalist rock fans respond to Bono’s propensity for puffy white shirts, bouffant hair and passionate, wade-into-the-crowd, loaves-and-fishes theatricality?
    Cary Darling, star-telegram.com, 22 May 2017

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