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barrette

[buh-ret] / bəˈrɛt /
NOUN
hairpin
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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

Maybe Ms. Zelda lost the barrette, just as she said.

From "The Cinderella Ballet Mystery: Nancy Drew and the Clue Crew, #4" by Carolyn Keene

In 2021, he told a veteran’s daughter, “I love those barrettes in your hair, man.”

From Washington Times ● Nov. 19, 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

“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

There they started out selling 14-karat gold chains, then later brass and nickel jewelry, plastic hair beads, ponytail holders and barrettes to street peddlers and mom-and-pop-shop owners.

From New York Times ● Mar. 18, 2022

I’m tired of having long wavy hair that has to be held back by barrettes or hairbands, I’m tired of being a child.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood




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