Citations:bandeaux

English citations of bandeaux

Plural form of bandeau.
- 1845, Eugène Sue, The mysteries of Paris, page 11:
  ^{1}The cap, which fitted tightly, was placed at the back of her head, and thus revealed two large and thick bandeaux of glossy hair, shining like jet, and falling very low in front.
  
  ^{2}Believing herself to be alone (for Rodolph still remained at the door motionless and unperceived), the grisette, having smoothed down her bandeaux with her small hand, white and delicately clean, put her small foot on a chair, and stooped to tie the lace of her boot.
- 1858, Henry Mills Alden, Harper’s Monthly Magazine, page 144:
  The hair is worn in flat bandeaux; it is low on the face, and on the head is divided into two parts, and rolled over the bandeaux; on the neck it falls low, without a knot.
- 1859, Samuel Breck, Recollections of Washington’s visit to Boston in 1789
  Meantime the French ships of war in the harbor were dressed in variegated lamps, and bonfires blazed in the streets. The ladies wore bandeaux, cestuses, and ribbons, stamped and embroidered with the name of WASHINGTON; some in gold and silver letters, and some in pearls.
- 1860, George Washington Parke Custis, Mary Randolph Custis Lee, Recollections and Private Memoirs of Washington, page 365:
  Among the brilliant illustrations of a birth-night of five-and-thirty years ago,* the most unique and imposing was the groups of young and beautiful ladies, wearing in their hair bandeaux or scrolls, having embroidered thereon, in language both ancient and modern, the motto of “Long live the president!”†
- 1870, F. Jefferies et al., The Gentleman’s Magazine, page 631:
  He gave her his photograph in the uniform of a cornet of lancers, and she gave him two photographs of herself, one with her hair in bandeaux, the other with bandeaux in front and ringlets at the back.
- 1938: Sherman Paxton Lawton, Radio Continuity Types
  They're seventy-nine cents, and the bandeaux are fifty-nine cents apiece.
- 1981: United States Customs Court Reports: cases adjudged in the United States Customs Court, published by the United States Customs Court
  In use, hair bandeaux are "placed over the top of the head to keep the hair in place and also for decoration."
- 1997: George Frederick Kunz, The Magic of Jewels and Charms
  The elaborate and rather oppressive headdress is a typical adornment of the queens of Sikki, the broad bandeaux are composed of pearls, [...]
- 1998: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Aurora Floyd
  Bandeaux are narrow fillets or head bands.
- 2004: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer, They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine : Two Centuries of Innovators
  But both of them were irritated that the dresses they made never fit perfectly since the bandeaux were not always wrapped with the same tightness.
A single bandeau.
- 1862–65: Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney (published in 1996; Allan Pritchard, ed)
  I did not give it to Emily for a bandeaux for her hair, because I always intended it for my wife whom I intend to love better than Emily, if possible; [...]
- 1937: Talks, page 7, by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc
  In the middle of this bandeaux is the cross of Lorraine. These arm-bands are brand new and only recently handed out.
- 1968, Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier (ISBN 0–765–34251–0), p26
  She wore a red dress, her long black hair caught in a matching bandeaux.
- 1997: Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Questions the Answer
  Her hair, upswept in an elaborate arrangement on top of her head, was circled with a bandeaux that had a flurry of white ostrich feathers.
- 2001: Marie Thérèse Gass, Unconventional Women: 73 ex-nuns tell their stories
  [...] and he would not give me a moment to replace it with a bandeaux and simple cap.
- 2003: R. D. Manning, The Wandering Jew (and Jewess): III REDEMPTION four part screenplay
  [...] without being fully-dressed, is still attired with more care than usual. Her light hair, instead of being simply arranged in a bandeaux, is curled and [...]