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
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
Her uncut hair falls to her shoulders, clipped back with a child’s barrette.
From New York Times ● Jan. 1, 2021
Fifi, there to meet us at the airport, is a jangle of bangles and a cascade of beauty parlor curls held back on one side very smartly by a big gold barrette.
From "How the García Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez
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
The installation will consist of three 9-foot-tall paper sculptures in the shape of vintage church fans adorned with ball barrettes.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 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
She had added more barrettes to her hair.
From "Raymie Nightingale" by Kate DiCamillo
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