English

Alternative forms

• barette

Noun

barrette ‎(plural barrettes)

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

Synonyms

• hairclip
• hair-slide
• hairslide

See also

• hairpin

Translations

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.

Anagrams

• batterer

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

Anagrams

• berretta