A pin for holding women's hair in place

Usage examples of barrette.

T-shirts and jeans, carrying empty backpacks and riding on roller skates, perfectly acquainted with every inch of the terrain, had come precision whirring and ticking into the giant Plaza just before closing time and departed only moments later with the packs stuffed full of eyeshadows, mascaras, lipsticks, earrings, barrettes, bracelets, pantyhose, and fashion shades, all of which they had turned immediately for cash from an older person named Otis, with a panel truck headed for a swap meet far away.

Ear-rings, and a meticulous, micrometrically precise coiffure held in place by at least a dozen glittering buckles, combs and barrettes.

Ella's hair was clipped into sprouts with barrettes, fountains of sunlight.

Her fair hair always escaped the barrettes and scrunchies intended to contain it.

Arnold showed me into the living room, where an assembly line had been set up on the floor - fifteen paper bags with clown faces on them, fifteen packages of neat-looking barrettes (apparently, all the guests were going to be girls), fifteen sets of Magic Markers, fifteen tiny clip-on koala bears, fifteen candy bars, and fifteen beaded necklaces.

The three of us wandered around the store for at least fifteen minutes, calling out things like, "Ooh, look at this unicorn pin," or "Hey, cool, these barrettes are sparkly!

Marilyn bought the knee socks with the hearts on them ("I'm tired of tights," she explained) and a pair of pink barrettes.

Then she pinned her hair on both sides of her head with matching ribbon barrettes.

A woman walked by wearing a pale peach tent shirt in a faux paisley pattern, brown gauze pants, and ribbon barrettes pulling her hair from her face.

Steffie's ribbon barrettes were long gone, and her tent shirt was wrinkled beyond recognition.

Her ribbon barrettes did not match, nor did she have on the right boots.

Doony Glynn has the faint remains of a black dotted line tattooed all the way around his neck at about Adam's-apple height, with instruction-manual-like directions for the removal of his head and maintenance of the disengaged head tattooed on his scalp, from the days of his Skinhead youth, which now the tattooed directions take patience and a comb and three of April Cortelyu's barrettes for Tiny even to see.

She told me that she loved the barrettes, and that she planned to wear them to school the next day.

Brilliant matching earrings and tiny barrettes wreathed her pretty, plump face in twinkles.

Marla waved at friends, pointed to her new necklace, earrings, and barrettes, and then nipped back toward me.