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barrette en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /bəˈɹɛt/
• (US) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. 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 zippered jackets in booths three to a girl, the girls with orange hair hanging like wiggly seaweed or loosely bound with gold barrettes like pirate treasure. 1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 30:
2. A bar used to mount medals of chivalric orders.
3. Synonym of katepimeron.

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Relateds

hairpin

Synonyms

katepimeron · hair clip · hairslide

Translations (22)

ca agulla de clenxa (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · ca pinça de cabells (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · bg фиба (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · cs sponka (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · bg фуркет (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · de Haarklammer (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · es pinche (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · ga fáisceán gruaige (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · sv hårspänne (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · ja バレッタ (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · es prendedor de pelo (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · mk шно́ла (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · pt prendedor de cabelo (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · az saçayıran (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · mk фурке́та (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · de Haarspange (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · pt presilha (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · ru зако́лка (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · bg шнола (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · pl spinka do włosów (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · es prendedor (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip) · fi hiussolki (clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair — see also hair clip)

barrette en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /bəˈɹɛt/
• (US) audio

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (transitive) To put (hair) into a barrette.
   • She pulled her long hair up and barretted it so that her long exotic earrings put the finishing touch to her exquisite appearance. 2010, Linda Lonsdorf, Family Threat, →ISBN, page 267:
   • With her barretted white hair, blue eyes, and deep green sweater, Victoria is as perfectly put together as ever. 2007, Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, →ISBN, page 219:
   • The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries. 2004, Glen Duncan, Death of an Ordinary Man, →ISBN:

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