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 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
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
Feathers in pink adorned sleeves and bandeau tops, and trains trailed behind some of his models as they camped it up for the cameras.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 11, 2022
Her bandeau of pearls having become disarranged, the Archduchess Sophia, who was leaning on her arm, kindly readjusted the ornament upon her brow.
From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 6 of 6 by Eugène Sue
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, 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
The hair in waved bandeaux on the forehead, and the back hair partly plaited and partly curled, two long ringlets dropping on each side of the neck.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. by Various
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