The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bandeau \Ban*deau"\ (b[a^]n*d[=o]"; b[a^]n"d[=o]), n.; pl. Bandeaux (b[a^]n*d[=o]z"). [F.] A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc.
Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of
leather.
--Sir W.
Scott.
Wiktionary
n. (plural of bandeau English)
WordNet
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Usage examples of "bandeaux".
Her hat lay pinned to the grass beside her, and the lively breeze played with her thick dark hair, blowing backward the two broad bandeaux that should have covered much of her forehead, and agitating a hundred tiny curls from the mass gathered at her nape.
She wore a red dress, her long black hair caught in a matching bandeaux.
She wore a red dress, her long black hair caught in a matching bandeaux.
Her way of gathering her thick hair into a crown of plaits above the broad, curving lines of the bandeaux upon her forehead, added to the queenliness of her face.
The women in sparkling evening dresses and feathered bandeaux, the men in evening suits, were all a shifting blur.
She had arranged her rebellious gray locks in smooth bandeaux, and her garments, although of common material, looked positively neat.