bandeau
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bandeau, from Old French bandel, diminutive form of bande. Doublet of bendel.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈbændəʊ/
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈbandəʊ/
or as in French
- Homophone: bandeaux
Noun
bandeau (plural bandeaux or bandeaus)
- A band for the hair.
- She wore a bandeau in her hair.
- 1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], OCLC 24531354, 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;...
- 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, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian, 13 December:
- At Paris fashion week, a few weeks later, Kim’s sister Kendall wore a minimalist black bandeau top that echoed Kim’s look.
- 2016, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian, 13 December:
Translations
hair band
band
bra
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French
Etymology
Old French bandel, from bande + -el.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɑ̃.do/
audio (un bandeau) (file)
Noun
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
- → English: bandeau
Further reading
- “bandeau”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Anagrams
- endauba