barrette
a clasp for holding a woman's or girl's hair in place.
Origin of barrette
1Words that may be confused with barrette
- barrette , beret
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How to use barrette in a sentence
He had on tan pants and a white T-shirt, had a goatee, and his overgrown hair was held back to one side with a barrette.
One man was holding his sleeping toddler whose barrette was falling out of her hair from a long day of dancing next to the palace.
She reached up as she spoke to fasten back her curls with the shell barrette that usually held them at the back of her neck.
Winona of the Camp Fire | Margaret WiddemerThe King was so indignant that he was very near refusing him the barrette.
The Secret Memoirs of Louis XV./XVI, Complete | Madame du Hausset, an "Unknown English Girl" and the Princess LamballeBarthélemy barrette asked me, on the day after that unbought feast at Royaulieu.
A Monk of Fife | Andrew Lang
British Dictionary definitions for barrette
/ (bəˈrɛt) /
a clasp or pin for holding women's hair in place
Origin of barrette
1Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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