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
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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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When a bandeau top she had ordered failed to arrive before a recent trip to Spain, her personal shopper had the item rushed to her hotel.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026
She wore a metallic silver floor-length skirt set, and a matching bandeau and blazer designed by Thom Browne.
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
Zip pockets are sewn into bra tops, while a trio of fanny packs become a bandeau top: perfect for the festival circuit.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 20, 2023
In one portrait, a woman has her hair pulled back in two coiled braids and sported a bandeau top made up of two fastened leather belts.
From New York Times ● Jun. 29, 2023
"She has been seen with a new diamond-studded bandeau," she added.
From Secret Memoirs: The Story of Louise, Crown Princess by Henry W. (Henry William) Fischer
She remembered, too, that the soldiers wore bandeaux made of toilet paper, such were the shortages.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2017
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
Peeresses, crowding the gallery, wore again the flexible, diamond-studded bandeaux first introduced last year to replace old-fashioned tiaras.
From Time Magazine Archive
Peeresses, for the first time, generally wore flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras.
From Time Magazine Archive
As she descended the three steps into the hall the light fell on her protruding forehead, framed on each side with the hard, waved bandeaux.
From My Double Life The Memoirs of Sarah Bernhardt by Sarah Bernhardt
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