bandeau
Americannoun
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bandeaux
plural
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a headband, especially one worn about the forehead.
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a narrow brassiere.
noun
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a narrow band of ribbon, velvet, etc, worn round the head
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a bikini top in the form of narrow band of material
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bandeau
1700–10; < French; Old French bandel, equivalent to bande band 2 + -el < Latin -illus diminutive suffix
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She adds that while bandeau tops are "such an on-trend look this summer, they are a no-go for work".
From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026
Where sheer fabrics were employed, it was with modesty, for example, over a dark tight, and with a bandeau top of velvet.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
She wore a bandeau, a cape and a printed skirt in an aristocratic purple, with thin golden cuffs on her upper arms and a necklace of shark teeth.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Her signature style of a crop top or bandeau top paired with baggy jeans, with long hair partially covering her left eye, is emblematic of her "sweet but street" style and still emulated today.
From Fox News ● Aug. 25, 2021
Kirby’s eyes widened as he beheld a single rose-cut diamond two inches in diameter, mounted in an exquisitely simple bandeau of wrought gold.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 by Various
She remembered, too, that the soldiers wore bandeaux made of toilet paper, such were the shortages.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2017
Peeresses, for the first time, generally wore flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peeresses, crowding the gallery, wore again the flexible, diamond-studded bandeaux first introduced last year to replace old-fashioned tiaras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lenglen likes bandeaux and silks and flounces; the little brown moons under her eyes suggest that she has come to the court without sleep after a night of carnival.
From Time Magazine Archive
Numberless fine plaits of hair, tressed with cords and separated by bandeaux, fell in opulent masses on either side of the face.
From The Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 5 The Romance of a Mummy and Egypt by Frederick C. de (Frederick Caesar de) Sumichrast
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