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barrette

barrette

English

Alternative forms

  • barette

Noun

barrette (plural barrettes)

  1. A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.

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Verb

barrette (third-person singular simple present barrettes, present participle barretting, simple past and past participle barretted)

  1. (transitive) To put (hair) into a barrette.
    • 2004, Glen Duncan, Death of an Ordinary Man, ISBN 0802170048:
      The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries.
    • 2007, Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, ISBN 0547527306, page 219:
      With her barretted white hair, blue eyes, and deep green sweater, Victoria is as perfectly put together as ever.
    • 2010, Linda Lonsdorf, Family Threat, ISBN 1456800698, page 267:
      She pulled her long hair up and barretted it so that her long exotic earrings put the finishing touch to her exquisite appearance.

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French

Etymology 1

From barre + -ette.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /baʁɛt/

Noun

barrette f (plural barrettes)

  1. small bar
  2. barrette (US), (hair) slide (UK)
  3. brooch
  4. bar (of medal)
  5. (colloquial) bar/slab of hash

Etymology 2

From Italian barretta.

Noun

barrette f (plural barrettes)

  1. (religion) biretta

Italian

Noun

barrette f

  1. plural of barretta

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