Barrette

Definitions

1. A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
2. A surname from French.
3. A bar used to mount medals of chivalric orders.
4. Synonym of katepimeron.

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Examples

“Growing sleepy, Rabbit stops before midnight at a roadside café for coffee. Somehow, though he can't put⟳ his finger on the difference, he is unlike the other customers. They sense⟳ it too, and look⟳ at him with hard eyes, eyes like⟳ little metal studs pinned into the white faces of young men sitting in zippered jackets in booths three to a girl, the girls with orange hair hanging like⟳ wiggly seaweed or loosely bound with gold barrettes like⟳ pirate treasure.”

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