barrette

See also: Barrette

English

Alternative forms

• barette

Etymology

Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“bar”) +‎ -ette, literally “small bar”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bəˈɹɛt/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

barrette (plural barrettes)

1. A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.

Synonyms

• hairclip
• hair-slide
• hairslide

Translations

A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair

• Finnish: hiussolki (fi)
• German: Haarspange f, Haarklammer f
• Japanese: バレッタ (baretta)
• Portuguese: prendedor de cabelo m
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• Russian: зако́лка (ru) f (zakólka)
• Spanish: prendedor de pelo m, prendedor m, pinche (es) m (Chile)
• Swedish: hårspänne (sv) n

See also

• hairpin

Verb

barrette (third-person singular simple present barrett, present participle ed, simple past and past participle barretted)

1. (transitive) To put (hair) into a barrette.
   • 2004, Glen Duncan, Death of an Ordinary Man‎^[1], →ISBN:

     The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries.

   • 2007, Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story‎^[2], →ISBN, page 219:

     With her barretted white hair, blue eyes, and deep green sweater, Victoria is as perfectly put together as ever.

   • 2010, Linda Lonsdorf, Family Threat‎^[3], →ISBN, page 267:

     She pulled her long hair up and barretted it so that her long exotic earrings put the finishing touch to her exquisite appearance.

Anagrams

• batterer, berretta

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.ʁɛt/

Etymology 1

From barre +‎ -ette.

Noun

barrette f (plural barrettes)

1. small bar
2. barrette (US), (hair) slide (UK)
3. brooch
4. bar (of medal)
5. (colloquial) bar/slab of hash

Etymology 2

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Italian barretta.

Noun

barrette f (plural barrettes)

1. (religion) biretta

Further reading

• “barrette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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Italian

Noun

barrette f

1. plural of barretta

Anagrams

• berretta