- an arrangement of a man's hair in which it is brushed up high from the forehead.
- an arrangement of a woman's hair in which it is raised over the forehead in a roll, sometimes over a pad.
- a pink or crimson color.
- Textiles.
- any fabric, as cotton or silk, having a design of small pink, blue, and sometimes gold flowers or bouquets on a white background.
- a fabric of the color pompadour, used for garments.
- mistress of Louis XV of France.
- an early 18th-century hairstyle for women, having the front hair arranged over a pad to give it greater height and bulk
- Marquise de, title of Jeanne Antoinette Poisson. 1721–64, mistress of Louis XV of France (1745–64), whom she greatly influenced
