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
When I first met Porpentine outside a coffee shop in Oakland, Calif., she was wearing a skirt and patterned knee socks, her strawberry blond hair pulled back in a small plastic barrette.
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2014
As we were walking out the door, Lily studied my new hairdo—which was half up in a barrette, with the rest hanging down my back.
From "It All Comes Down to This" by Karen English
In 2021, he told a veteran’s daughter, “I love those barrettes in your hair, man.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 2023
Parents were braiding children’s hair, adding ribbons and pig-shaped barrettes.
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2023
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
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
I remembered that Branwell had told me that she called barrettes hair grips.
From "Silent To The Bone" by E.L. Konigsburg
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