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English

Etymology

From #French|bandeau, from bandel, diminutive of bande ‘band’.

Pronunciation

IPA: /ˈbændəʊ/ (or as French, below) (UK)

Noun

A band for the hair.
:She wore a bandeau in her hair.
In the Context of A band.
A brassiere, especially when narrow or strapless; a top made from a narrow band of fabric.

Quotations

1998: AANS Publications Committee: Setti S. Rengachary, MD, and Edward C. Benzel, MD, Calvarial and Dural Reconstruction: Neurosurgical Topics
:The frontal bandeau is then elevated en bloc. A Bi on BC1 (Midas Rex) bit is used to create the osteotomies circumferentially.
1999: Bill C. Terry, Maxime Champy, Franz Härle, et al, Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Osteosynthesis: miniplates, microplates, and screws
:The supraorbital bandeau is fixed to the nasal structure by a titanium [...]
:This bandeau is fixed by microplates. The median bone strip is fixed to the [...]
2002: Raoul d'Harcourt, Textiles of Ancient Peru and Their Techniques
:Fragment of a wool cap, of which only the bandeau is well preserved. It is made in square knotting in alternate directions (see Fig. 79).

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French

Etymology

Old French bandel, diminutive of bande ‘band’.

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at Fr-bandeau.ogg
IPA: /bɑ̃do/

Noun

de:bandeau fr:bandeau io:bandeau ru:bandeau vi:bandeau zh:bandeau

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English 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.
[Webster 1913 Suppl.]

Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of
leather. --Sir W.
Scott.
[1913 Webster] Bandlet
Bandelet

WordNet bandeau
n : an undergarment worn by women to support their breasts [syn:
brassiere, bra]
[also: bandeaux (pl)]

Moby Dictionary
achievement , advocate , alerion , alpenstock , animal charge , annulet ,
argent , arm , armorial bearings , armory , arms , athletic supporter ,
azure , back , backbone , backing , band , bar , bar sinister , baton ,
bearer , bearings , bend , bend sinister , billet , blazon , blazonry ,
bordure , bra , brace , bracer , bracket , brassiere , broad arrow ,
buttress , cadency mark , cane , canton , carrier , cervix , chaplet ,
charge , chevron , chief , coat of arms , cockatrice , coronet , corset ,
crescent , crest , crook , cross , cross moline , crown , crutch , device ,
difference , differencing , eagle , ermine , ermines , erminites ,
erminois , escutcheon , falcon , falsies , fess , fess point , field ,
file , fillet , flanch , fleur-de-lis , foundation garment , fret ,
fulcrum , fur , fusil , garland , girdle , griffin , gules , guy , guywire ,
gyron , hatchment , helmet , heraldic device , honor point , impalement ,
impaling , inescutcheon , jock , jockstrap , label , lion , lozenge ,
mainstay , maintainer , mantling , marshaling , martlet , mascle , mast ,
metal , motto , mullet , neck , nombril point , octofoil , or , ordinary ,
orle , pale , paly , pean , pheon , prop , purpure , quarter , quartering ,
reinforce , reinforcement , reinforcer , rest , resting place , ribbon ,
rigging , rose , sable , saltire , scutcheon , shield , shoulder , shroud ,
soutien-gorge , spine , spread eagle , sprit , staff , standing rigging ,
stave , stay , stick , stiffener , strengthener , stripe , subordinary ,
support , supporter , sustainer , tenne , tincture , torse , tressure ,
unicorn , upholder , vair , vert , walking stick , wreath , yale