Usually means: Voluminous, puffy, styled hairdo.
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  1. bouffant: Merriam-Webster
  2. bouffant: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bouffant: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bouffant: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bouffant: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bouffant, bouffant: Wordnik
  7. bouffant: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bouffant: Wiktionary
  9. bouffant: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bouffant: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bouffant: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bouffant: Dictionary.com
  13. bouffant: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Bouffant: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. bouffant: Rhymezone
  16. bouffant: FreeDictionary.org
  17. bouffant: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. bouffant: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. bouffant: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. bouffant: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See bouffants as well.)

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adjective:  Of hair or clothing, full-bodied or puffy; puffed out away from head or body.
noun:  A puffy, round hairstyle, popular in the mid-to-late 16th century, characterized by hair raised high on the head and usually covering the ears or hanging down on the sides.

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