bandeau
English edit
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;...
- 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.
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.