barrette
Example Sentences
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Sharon Lane’s clothes were largely deteriorated, but she had jewelry, a red hair pick and a yellow barrette, and a Life Savers wrapper.
From Washington Post • Dec. 2, 2022
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
Like how to clip a barrette to the front of my hair so it looks cute-but-not-babyish.
From "The Thing About Jellyfish" by Ali Benjamin
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