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barrette

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8 lettersPronunciation /bəˈɹɛt/Part of speech nounSorted abeerrttStarts with BEnds with E0 clues
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Definitions

  1. a pin for holding women's hair in place

Word origin

Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“a bar”) + -ette, literally a small bar.

Used in a sentence

  • The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries.
  • With her barretted white hair, blue eyes, and deep green sweater, Victoria is as perfectly put together as ever.
  • She pulled her long hair up and barretted it so that her long exotic earrings put the finishing touch to her exquisite appearance.

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