Meanings
plural Alice bands
- A flexible horseshoe-shaped headband.
She looked, Harry, thought, like somebody’s maiden aunt: squat, with short, curly, mouse-brown hair in which she had placed a horrible pink Alice band that matched the fluffy pink cardigan she wore over her robes.
2003, J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Origin
From Lewis Carroll's fictional Alice, often depicted wearing the headband in the illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Chinese Mandarin 髮箍 /发箍, 頭箍 /头箍
- 髮箍 /发箍 (fàgū)Translations
- 頭箍 /头箍 (tóugū)Translations
Czech čelenka
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German Haarreifen, Haarreif
- HaarreifenTranslations
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Icelandic hárspöng
- hárspöngTranslations
Indonesian bando
- bandoTranslations
Japanese カチューシャ, ヘアバンド
- カチューシャ (kachūsha)Translations
- ヘアバンド (heabando)Translations
Slovak čelenka
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Cite this entry
Alice band. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alice%20band
“Alice band.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Alice%20band. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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