a dress or part of a dress in which a large mass of material has been gathered so that it stands away from the body (衣服大片收褶后形成的)膨起部分,泡泡 [as modifier]a dress with a pouf skirt. 裙部收褶膨起的衣服。 ■a bouffant hairstyle 高髻;爆炸式发型 he grew his hair out in a sort of pouf. 他留了个有点爆炸式的发型。
语源
early 19th cent. (denoting an elaborate female headdress fashionable at the time): from French, of imitative origin