Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A gummy perfumed substance, originally obtained mainly from quince-seeds, used to impart glossiness to the hair, or to fix it in any particular form.
  • To apply bandoline to, as the hair; render stiff, as the mustache, by applying bandoline.
  • To apply bandoline to the hair.
  • noun A mucilage prepared from carrageen moss (Chondrus crispus) mixed with scented spirit: used to stiffen silk goods.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A glutinous pomatum for the hair.

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  • noun A glutinous pomatum for the hair.

Etymologies

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Perhaps related to band.

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Examples

  • Several switches of false hair were then taken out of a long lacquer box, and, with the aid of a quantity of bandoline and a solid pad, the ordinary smooth chignon was produced, to which several loops and bows of hair were added, interwoven with a little dark-blue crepe, spangled with gold.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • The hair, which is loaded with oil and bandoline, is dressed once a week, or less often in these districts, and it is unnecessary to enter into any details regarding the distressing results, and much besides may be left to the imagination.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Two divisions, three inches apart, were made along the top of the head, and the lock of hair between these was combed, stiffened with a bandoline made from the Uvario Japonica, raised two inches from the forehead, turned back, tied, and pinned to the back hair.

    Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004

  • Cousin Huan will marry in the near future; and if an outlay of three thousand taels prove insufficient, we will be able, by curtailing the bandoline, used in those rooms for smoothing the hair with, make both ends meet.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • RIMMEL, hys bandoline; PIVER hys _Nohiba de la Mecque_; MAUGENET and

    The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

  • In very elaborate and unnatural styles of dressing the hair, and to cause it to remain in curl or to retain its position during dancing, or violent exercise, bandoline and cosmetique or hard pomatum are the articles commonly employed in fashionable life.

    The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources Anonymous

  • Cousin Huan will marry in the near future; and if an outlay of three thousand taels prove insufficient, we will be able, by curtailing the bandoline, used in those rooms for smoothing the hair with, make both ends meet.

    Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • Later, dusky Henriette Blondéau comes, with her tignon stuck full of pins and the deep pockets of her apron bulging with sticks of bandoline, pots of pomade, hairpins and a

    Social life in old New Orleans : being recollections of my girlhood, 1912

  • I remember a dance given by handsome Mrs. Forrest, when I wore a white "book-muslin," with my hair glued to my head with bandoline, then plaited in sixteen-strand braids coiled in a basket low upon the neck, in which were inserted

    Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay 1911

  • May their food disagree with them, their clothes fail to come back from the laundry, and their bandoline lose its staying qualities.

    Peck's Sunshine Being a Collection of Articles Written for Peck's Sun, Milwaukee, Wis. - 1882 1878

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