Pompadour vs False - What's the difference?
pompadour | false |
A women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.
A men's hairstyle of the 1950s.
A crimson or pink colour.
* 1812 , George Shaw, ?James Francis Stephens, General Zoology: pt. 1. Aves (page 409)
To style hair into a
* {{quote-book, 1944, Skulda V. Banér, Latchstring Out
, passage=But by mid-afternoon we had both grown tired of putting on and taking off the clothes my mother and Beata had made for Lillian Russell, and of taking down and pompadouring again the wig Beata had turned backside front so it should be long where ladies' hair was supposed to be long.}}
English eponyms
Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
*{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
, title= Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
Spurious, artificial.
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
(lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
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Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
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*(John Milton) (1608-1674)
*:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
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*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
*:whose false foundation waves have swept away
Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
(lb) Out of tune.
As a noun pompadour
is a women's hairstyle in which the hair is swept upwards from the face and worn high over the forehead.As a verb pompadour
is to style hair into a.As an adjective false is
(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.pompadour
English
(wikipedia pompadour)Alternative forms
* pompador (nonstandard)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(en verb)citation
false
English
Adjective
(er)A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society, section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}