noun A women's hairstyle where the hair is rolled and piled up high.
- Hosaka, nearly everyone agrees, is a master of detail, an artist who tends his poodles’ poufs as if they were bonsai trees from his native Japan.
— Katie Thomas, The Poodle Can’t Talk Now; She’s in With Her Stylist (2009)
noun A soft, low seat with no back, sometimes used to rest the feet on.
- Italian Ambassador Amedeo Guillet, who makes it a practice never to eat at midday, lounged on a Moroccan pouf reading The Peter Principle.
— , Slaughter at the Summer Palace (1971)
- Pistachio and date-filled cakes glisten under a glass cloche as customers drinking cardamom tea settle into brightly tapestried pouf chairs at the Pouya café and cultural center in Paris.
— Colette Davidson, For Iranian diaspora in Europe, the war back home is a dilemma (2025)
