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 wore a metallic silver floor-length skirt set, and a matching bandeau and blazer designed by Thom Browne.
From BBC ● May 5, 2025
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
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
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
Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather.
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) by Noah Webster
She remembered, too, that the soldiers wore bandeaux made of toilet paper, such were the shortages.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2017
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
Peeresses, for the first time, generally wore flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras.
From Time Magazine Archive
The ladies wore bandeaux, cestuses, and ribands, stamped and embroidered with the name of Washington; some in gold and silver letters, and some in pearls.
From Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3. by Benson John Lossing
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