barrette
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A blue velvet box bearing a label "bracelets of Queen Marie Antoinette" holds the double bracelets, each composed of three strings of diamonds and a large barrette clasp, for a total of 112 diamonds.
From Reuters ● Nov. 3, 2021
Hair was wound into a tight bun or frizzed-out, perhaps accented by golden heart barrette, lightly folded like butterfly wings.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 22, 2021
Mu ran in gold-painted fingernails and a red barrette stamped with the word “CONFIDENT.”
From Washington Post ● Aug. 3, 2021
Before she left the United States to compete in the Olympics, Athing Mu spied a hair barrette in a department store.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 3, 2021
The strands that were held in the barrette were a lighter shade than the rest.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
Either way, the onetime roommates and bandmates pioneered a discomfiting broken-doll aesthetic of smudged eyeliner, smeared lipstick and plastic barrettes clipped to hanks of bleached-out hair.
From Salon ● Jun. 12, 2026
In 2021, he told a veteran’s daughter, “I love those barrettes in your hair, man.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
“That’s a fancy baby,” a 4-year-old girl with colorful barrettes said as she walked by our stroller at a neighborhood park.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 29, 2022
Monterroso is 55 and petite, with youthful bangs and hair clipped back by tiny jeweled barrettes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2022
Their matching yellow shirts and brown jumpers, not to mention the same haircut and daisy barrettes, make them look like twins.
From "A Step from Heaven" by An Na
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