thumb|Queen Marie Antoinette shown wearing a pouf created by her hairdresser Léonard Autié (1775)
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.
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