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- a dress or part of a dress in which a large mass of material has been gathered so that it stands away from the body(衣服大片收褶后形成的)膨起部分, 泡泡:
as modifier a dress with a pouf skirt.裙部收褶膨起的连衣裙。
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- a bouffant hairstyle高髻; 爆炸式发型:
he grew his hair out in a sort of pouf.
他留了个有点爆炸式的发型。
词源
early 19th cent. (denoting an elaborate female head-dress fashionable at the time): from French, of imitative origin.