| 词汇 | pompadour |
| 词源 | pompadour. Madame de Pompadour, born Jeanne- Antoinette Poisson, is probably history’s most famous courte- san. In fact, La Pompadour, who became maîtresse en titre to Louis XV when 27 years old, had been educated at great expense to be a royal mistress. Raised from an early age by her mother’s lover, a wealthy financier who took her from her poor parents, her future had been prophesied when she was only nine by an old fortune-teller, whom Pompadour later pen- sioned for the accuracy of her prediction. An extremely beauti- ful girl, she proved to be a kind, generous, and talented woman once she had entrenched herself with the monarch. Surround- ing herself with beautiful objects was her passion and she was the undisputed leader of Parisian fashions, causing many styles and costumes to be attributed to her. The most famous, histori- cally, is the pompadour hairstyle, which was at first worn in loose rolls around the face but swept upward high above the forehead in the next century and came to be a style worn by men as well as women. The woman’s dress called a pompadour, cut square and low in the neck, is also named for her. However, her name is best known as a synonym for mistress. Even on her deathbed she painted her face for the king. |
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