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What (who) is pouffe - definition
HAIRSTYLE AND A HAIRSTYLING SUPPORT
Pouffe; Poufs
![Illustration by [[Claude-Louis Desrais]] (1778).](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/La petite Mere au Rendez-vous des Champs Elisées cropped.jpg?width=200 "Illustration by [[Claude-Louis Desrais]] (1778).")
![[[Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe]], c. 1776, by [[Antoine-François Callet]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Madame la princesse de Lamballe by Antoine-François Callet (circa 1776, Callet).jpg?width=200 "[[Marie Thérèse Louise of Savoy, Princesse de Lamballe]], c. 1776, by [[Antoine-François Callet]]")
Pouffe
·add. ·noun Lit., a puff;.
II. Pouffe ·add. ·noun A piece of furniture like an ottoman, generally circular and affording cushion seats on all sides.
III. Pouffe ·add. ·noun A soft cushion, ·esp. one circular in shape and not, like a pilow, of bag form, or thin at the edges.
pouffe
[pu:f]
(also pouf)
¦ noun a cushioned footstool or low seat with no back.
Origin
C19: from Fr. pouf, of imitative origin.
pouf
pouf1
¦ exclamation variant spelling of poof2.
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pouf2 [pu:f]
¦ noun
1. a part of a dress in which a large mass of material has been gathered so that it stands away from the body.
2. a bouffant hairstyle.
Origin
C19 (denoting an elaborate female headdress): from Fr., of imitative origin.
Wikipedia
Pouf
The pouf or pouffe also "toque" (literally a thick cushion) is a hairstyle and a hairstyling support deriving from 18th-century France. It was made popular by the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), when she wore it in June 1775 at the coronation of her husband Louis XVI, triggering a wave of French noblewomen to wear their hair in the same manner. The hairstyle would become popular across Europe in the 1780s.
