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A typically bar-shaped clip or ornament for the hair.
‘She will clip her long, unruly hair with a tarnished barrette and see her off to school.’
‘She'd pinned her blonde hair back with two barrettes.’
‘She is wearing blue eye liner and blue eye shadow and blue lip gloss and she has her hair tied up high with a blue hairband and two blue barrettes holding her hair in place.’
‘She had taken a rhinestone studded barrette to clip one side of her hair away from her face.’
‘I clipped one side of my hair back with two barrettes and put on some light make-up.’
‘He slowly took out the barrette in Chloe's hair.’
‘She threw her hair up in barrette and walked on down stairs.’
‘Crystal-studded clips, barrettes and pins are a quick way to dress up hair.’
‘She had put serpent-shaped silver barrettes in her hair, and she played with fearful but clear conviction.’
‘She reached up to remove the barrettes that held her hair from her face and let it fall as a protective shield around her upper body.’
‘Some clip-on hair extensions are small sections of hair attached to metal clips, much like barrettes.’
‘She now wore two diamond barrettes in her hair, a plain diamond necklace, and a diamond ring.’
‘Holding her box of barrettes, clips, and brushes up, Lucy nodded proudly.’
‘She had put barrettes in her hair and wore a uniform skirt so everyone could tell her gender.’
‘She had strange, light-brown eyes, long black hair with huge dragonfly barrette accompanying it.’
‘She took the barrette out of her hair, allowing her black and blonde hair to move more freely, instead of being molded into a tight bun.’
‘The woman's hair flowed behind down to her waist where barrettes were clipped onto her coffee brown hair.’
‘I stared back at my reflection as he busied himself, attaching butterfly barrettes on my hair silently.’
‘The clothes, the shoes, even the barrettes in her hair - in every detail she was being presented as a ‘little girl,’ which is how her lawyers described her to the jury.’
‘‘Uh, earth to Jem,’ she says, removing the barrette and clipping her hair in place.’
Origin
Early 20th century: from French, diminutive of barre ‘bar’.