bandeau

plural bandeaux · plural bandeaus

1. A band for the hair.

   She wore a bandeau in her hair.

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   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;...

   1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 221

   an elaborate tombstone over a prebendary's widow, a dead lady with a Grecian nose, a bandeau, and an intricate lace veil; lying of course on a marble sofa

   1857, Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers

   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).

   2002, Raoul d'Harcourt, Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques

2. medicineA 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.

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   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 [...]

   1999, Bill C. Terry, Maxime Champy, Franz Härle, et al, Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Osteosynthesis: miniplates, microplates, and screws

3. A narrow, tight bra, especially when strapless; hence, any women's top made from a similar band of fabric.

   At Paris fashion week, a few weeks later, Kim’s sister Kendall wore a minimalist black bandeau top that echoed Kim’s look.

   2016 December 13, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian