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Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French bandeau, from Old French bandel, diminutive form of bande. Doublet of bendel.
Pronunciation
[edit]or as in French
Noun
[edit]bandeau (plural bandeaux or bandeaus)
- A band for the hair.
- She wore a bandeau in her hair.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 221:
- You dress with a square glass before you, and a long glass behind you; your hair trusts to its own brown or black attractions, either curled or braided,—or you put on a wreath, a bunch of flowers, or a pearl bandeau;...
- 1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers:
- an elaborate tombstone over a prebendary's widow, a dead lady with a Grecian nose, a bandeau, and an intricate lace veil; lying of course on a marble sofa
- 2002, Raoul d'Harcourt, Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques:
- Fragment of a wool cap, of which only the bandeau is well preserved. It is made in square knotting in alternate directions (see Fig. 79).
- (medicine) A band.
- 1998, AANS Publications Committee: Setti S. Rengachary, MD, and Edward C. Benzel, MD, Calvarial and Dural Reconstruction: Neurosurgical Topics
- The frontal bandeau is then elevated en bloc. A Bi on BC1 (Midas Rex) bit is used to create the osteotomies circumferentially.
- 1999, Bill C. Terry, Maxime Champy, Franz Härle, et al, Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Osteosynthesis: miniplates, microplates, and screws:
- The supraorbital bandeau is fixed to the nasal structure by a titanium [...]
This bandeau is fixed by microplates. The median bone strip is fixed to the [...]
- 1998, AANS Publications Committee: Setti S. Rengachary, MD, and Edward C. Benzel, MD, Calvarial and Dural Reconstruction: Neurosurgical Topics
- A narrow, tight bra, especially when strapless; hence, any women's top made from a similar band of fabric.
- 2016 December 13, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian:
- At Paris fashion week, a few weeks later, Kim’s sister Kendall wore a minimalist black bandeau top that echoed Kim’s look.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]hair band
band
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Old French bandel (from bande + -el).
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]bandeau m (plural bandeaux)
- headband, bandeau
- bandage
- blindfold
- (Toulouse, now historical) a tight headband worn for a long time, usually from youth, for the ancient folk custom of cranial deformation
Descendants
[edit]- → English: bandeau
Further reading
[edit]- “bandeau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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