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barrette
barrette
English
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Alternative forms
- barette
Noun
barrette (plural barrettes)
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Translations
A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair
Verb
barrette (third-person singular simple present barrettes, present participle barretting, simple past and past participle barretted)
- (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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