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- noun Plural form of bandeau.
- noun A
bandeau , a single band (or a set of such bands) for a woman’s hair.
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Examples
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They wore little robes of silver or gold lama, plumes of white feathers, and a profusion of fine diamonds, and pearls, in bandeaux, brooches, and necklaces, white gauze wings, and white satin shoes, embroidered in gold.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country Frances Erskine Inglis 1843
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This spring, Jantzen launched its "Heritage Collection," which features fetching swimsuits and other pieces of casual apparel adapted and updated from a hundred years of maillots, bandeaux, maxis, cowls and bikinis.
Susan Kim: Eye Candy 2010
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Her way of gathering her thick hair into a crown of plaits above the broad, curving lines of the bandeaux upon her forehead, added to the queenliness of her face.
The Deserted Woman 2007
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Her way of gathering her thick hair into a crown of plaits above the broad, curving lines of the bandeaux upon her forehead, added to the queenliness of her face.
The Deserted Woman 2007
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Then among the ladies there were a half-score of dubious pale governesses and professionals with turned frocks and lank damp bandeaux of hair under shabby little bonnets; luckless creatures these, who were parting with their poor little store of half-guineas to be enabled to say they were pupils of Signor
Mens Wives 2006
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Her hair is rather scarce, and worn in bandeaux, and she commonly mounts a sprig of laurel, or a dark flower or two, which with the sham tour — I believe that is the name of the knob of artificial hair that many ladies sport — gives her a rigid and classical look.
Mens Wives 2006
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Her face is mottled with wrath, her bandeaux of hair are disarranged upon her forehead, the ornaments of her cap, cheap, and dirty, and numerous, only give her a wilder appearance.
The Newcomes 2006
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Her hair was of the darkest shade of brown, and was always worn in bandeaux, very neatly.
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Her copious rich brown hair was worn in Grecian bandeaux round her head, displaying as much as possible of her forehead and cheeks.
Barchester Towers 2004
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En se qui concerne la pub, nous n'avons pas de bandeaux publicitaire de notre coté, nous avons uniquement mit 3 petits liens pour 3 de nos partenaires.
Hosted Blog Platform Test Write-Up — Climb to the Stars 2004
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