barrette
See also: Barrette
English
Alternative forms
- barette
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bəˈɹɛt/
Audio (US) (file)
Noun
barrette (plural barrettes)
- A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
- 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 30:
- Growing sleepy, Rabbit stops before midnight at a roadside café for coffee. Somehow, though he can't put his finger on the difference, he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men sitting in zippered jackets in booths three to a girl, the girls with orange hair hanging like wiggly seaweed or loosely bound with gold barrettes like pirate treasure.
- (entomology) Synonym of katepimeron.
Translations
clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip
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See also
Verb
barrette (third-person singular simple present barrettes, present participle barretting, simple past and past participle barretted)
- (transitive) To put (hair) into a barrette.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.ʁɛt/, /bɑ.ʁɛt/
Noun
barrette f (plural barrettes)
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba.ʁɛt/
Descendants
- → Portuguese: barrete
Further reading
- “barrette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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