barrette
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barrette¹
- /bəˈɹɛt/
Rhymes with -ɛt
Where it comes from
Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“a bar”) + -ette, literally a small bar.
noun barrettes · barette
- A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair. Growing sleepy, Rabbit stops before midnight at a roadside café for coffee. Somehow, though he can't put his finger on the difference, he is unlike the other customers. They sense it too, and look at him with hard eyes, eyes like little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men sitting in
- A bar used to mount medals of chivalric orders.
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Synonym of katepimeron.
Similar: katepimeron
verb barrettes · barretting · barretted · barette
- To put (hair) into a barrette. The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries.
Barrette²
proper noun Barrettes
- A surname from French.
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noun clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip
| Español | prendedor de pelo, prendedor, pinche |
|---|---|
| 日本語 | バレッタ baretta |
| Português | prendedor de cabelo, presilha |
| Deutsch | Haarspange, Haarklammer |
| Русский | зако́лка zakólka |
Talk about this word "barrette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/barrette. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. barrette. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/barrette "barrette." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/barrette.Cite this
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title = {barrette},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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