Word: pompadoured
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...Madame Pompadour. Dorothy Gish flickered to fame as a saucy heroine of the common people. Now, snatched from her natural background, she is seen in 18th Century regalia exercising shop girlish charms to enslave King Louis XV of France. As might have been predicted by pessimists, the Mme. Pompadour of the infant industry is no resourceful siren but a sweet, good lass in love with a poor artist. It was Fate which pushed her into a palace...
There is also a copy of a book by Madame de Pompadour and a number of other books from the library of members of the French royal family. These were all bound by famous French binders, and are largely old red morocco...
...came from Italy some 40 years ago, Carlo Salvatore Cicero, with shears and razors; a barber, aged 16. He found work in the old Astor House and ran a shop of his own in Pearl Street after hours. It was a heyday of whiskers; one's pompadour was as important as one's politics...
...sharp evening in December, 1888, "The Count" remembers. Into his Pearl Street shop came a rising young barrister for whose pompadour and mustache Manhattan already entertained an admiration that was to grow and grow as the barrister matured and developed a beard. The gentleman was quite excited. He was, he said, to be married in the morning. Carlo Salvator Cicero and no one else must come to his house after breakfast. Mr. Cicero went. He whetted his blade, he whipped his lather, he wielded scissors, comb and brush to achieve the acme of tonsorial impeccability the masterpiece of a career...
...determination to get the Orient out of Russia he moved his capital away from Moscow, built himself a Versailles, procured a Pompadour, and made hunting into a pageant, trotting out on horseback like a Bourbon, with ribbons, hounds, bugles, spears, and streamers. Because the rug showed a hunting scene he became very fond...