buffont
An item of neckwear (a neckerchief), usually of linen, gauze, or lace, worn around the neck and puffed out over the bosom, popular from the 1750s to 1790s.
Noun
- An item of neckwear (a neckerchief), usually of linen, gauze, or lace, worn around the neck and puffed out over the bosom, popular from the 1750s to 1790s.
- A [...] white ribbon was tied round her scraggy neck, while a buffont attempted to cover her bosom as flat as a deal board, [...] - 1782, The Hibernian Magazine, Or, Compendium of Entertaining Knowledge, page 91:
- [...] : a disproportion arising from the fact of the body being contrived for the admission of a buffont, a piece of dress composed of gauze, or fine linen, which was worn over the neck and breast, strutting out like...
- Even to his unpracticed eye, the stitching showed the results of a patient hand. A loudly expelled breath drew his attention to Belle Latchett. Her impressive bosom rose inside a plum-colored brocade dress. A buffont of...
- Alternative form of bouffant.
- Perhaps the most famous American woman to wear a bouffant hairstyle was First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy. - 2006, Victoria Sherrow, Encyclopedia of Hair: A Cultural History, Greenwood Publishing Group, →ISBN, page 69:
- See Figure 5-5 for an example of a bouffant cap on a face cradle. - 2006, Ralph Stephens, Therapeutic Chair Massage, Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, →ISBN, page 28:
Origin
From French bouffant; doublet of bouffant, which see for more.