Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Pompadour \Pom"pa*dour\, n.
   A crimson or pink color; also, a style of dress cut low and
   square in the neck; also, a mode of dressing the hair by
   drawing it straight back from the forehead over a roll; -- so
   called after the Marchioness de Pompadour of France. Also
   much used adjectively.

Source : WordNet®

Pompadour
     n 1: French noblewoman who was the lover of Louis XV, whose
          policies she influenced (1721-1764) [syn: {Marquise de
          Pompdour}, {Jeanne Antoinette Poisson}]
     2: a hair style in which the front hair is swept up from the
        forehead
     v : style women's hair in a pompadour