pouf
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thumb|Queen Marie Antoinette shown wearing a pouf created by her hairdresser Léonard Autié (1775)
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thumb|Queen Marie Antoinette shown wearing a pouf created by her hairdresser Léonard Autié (1775)
The pouf or pouffe, also "toque" (literally a thick cushion) is a hairstyle and a hairstyling support deriving from 18th-century France. It was made popular by the Queen of France, Marie Antoinette (1755–1793), when she wore it in June 1775 at the coronation of her husband Louis XVI, triggering a wave of French noblewomen to wear their hair in the same manner. The hairstyle would become popular across Europe in the 1770s.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “pouf” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.