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bandeau

[ban-doh, ban-doh] / bænˈdoʊ, ˈbæn doʊ /






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When a bandeau top she had ordered failed to arrive before a recent trip to Spain, her personal shopper had the item rushed to her hotel.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 18, 2026

She adds that while bandeau tops are "such an on-trend look this summer, they are a no-go for work".

From BBC Aug. 5, 2026

Zip pockets are sewn into bra tops, while a trio of fanny packs become a bandeau top: perfect for the festival circuit.

From Seattle Times Sep. 20, 2023

She wore a bandeau, a cape and a printed skirt in an aristocratic purple, with thin golden cuffs on her upper arms and a necklace of shark teeth.

From New York Times Apr. 12, 2022

Hence it is called in France 'Roitelet à triple bandeau'.

From British Birds in their Haunts by Rev. C. A. Johns

She remembered, too, that the soldiers wore bandeaux made of toilet paper, such were the shortages.

From The Guardian Apr. 3, 2017

Lenglen likes bandeaux and silks and flounces; the little brown moons under her eyes suggest that she has come to the court without sleep after a night of carnival.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peeresses, for the first time, generally wore flexible diamond-studded bandeaux, instead of the old fashioned tiaras.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peeresses, crowding the gallery, wore again the flexible, diamond-studded bandeaux first introduced last year to replace old-fashioned tiaras.

From Time Magazine Archive

The cap, which fitted tightly, was placed at the back of her head, and thus revealed two large and thick bandeaux of glossy hair, shining like jet, and falling very low in front.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Eugène Sue




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