Madame de Pompadour - in Popular Culture

In Popular Culture

  • The 56th (West Essex) Regiment of Foot, a unit of the British Army that existed from 1755 to 1881, was nicknamed "The Pompadours", as the purple facing of the regiment's uniform was allegedly Pompadour's favourite colour. Some soldiers of the regiment preferred to claim that it was the colour of her underwear. Its successor, the Essex Regiment, kept the colour and the nickname.
  • The classic pink of Sèvres porcelain is rose de Pompadour.
  • The Pompadour hairstyle is named after her.
  • "Pompadour heels" (more commonly known as "Louis heels") are named after her.
  • The "coupe de champagne" (French champagne glass) is sometimes claimed to have been modelled on the shape of her breast, although this is probably not the case.
  • She is referenced in the song "Personality" written by Johnny Burke and Jimmy Van Heusen
  • A hybrid Dendrobium orchid nicknamed "Madame Pompadour" serves as the symbol of Thai Airways.

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