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
There are accessories that riff on some of the best lines, such as a barrette imprinted with “full of secrets.”
From Washington Post ● Oct. 31, 2017
Nancy pulled the silver barrette out of her dance bag and held it out to Nadine.
From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene
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
A trans dad holding his daughter as she excitedly claps to music with a head full of colorful barrettes twinkling under the sun.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 19, 2023
The nonbinary student, who sometimes wore barrettes and clips in their locks, was allowed back in class under an exemption the judge extended.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 26, 2021
Mimi shook her head so hard her barrettes bounced.
From "Trouble at the Arcade (The Hardy Boys: Secret Files, #1)" by Franklin W. Dixon
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