Citations:bandeaux


 * 1) Plural form of bandeau.
 * {2}Believing herself to be alone (for Rodolph still remained at the door motionless and unperceived), the grisette, having smoothed down her bandeaux with her small hand, white and delicately clean, put her small foot on a chair, and stooped to tie the lace of her boot.
 * 1) *1859, Samuel Breck, Recollections of Washington’s visit to Boston in 1789
 * Meantime the French ships of war in the harbor were dressed in variegated lamps, and bonfires blazed in the streets. The ladies wore bandeaux, cestuses, and ribbons, stamped and embroidered with the name of W ASHINGTON ; some in gold and silver letters, and some in pearls.
 * 1) *1938: Sherman Paxton Lawton, Radio Continuity Types
 * They're seventy-nine cents, and the bandeaux are fifty-nine cents apiece.
 * 1) *1981: United States Customs Court Reports: cases adjudged in the United States Customs Court, published by the United States Customs Court
 * In use, hair bandeaux are "placed over the top of the head to keep the hair in place and also for decoration."
 * 1) *1997: George Frederick Kunz, The Magic of Jewels and Charms
 * The elaborate and rather oppressive headdress is a typical adornment of the queens of Sikki, the broad bandeaux are composed of pearls, [...]
 * 1) *1998: Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Aurora Floyd
 * Bandeaux are narrow fillets or head bands.
 * 1) *2004: Harold Evans, Gail Buckland, David Lefer, They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine : Two Centuries of Innovators
 * But both of them were irritated that the dresses they made never fit perfectly since the bandeaux were not always wrapped with the same tightness.
 * 1) A single bandeau.
 * 2) *1862–65: Vancouver Island Letters of Edmund Hope Verney (published in 1996; Allan Pritchard, ed)
 * I did not give it to Emily for a bandeaux for her hair, because I always intended it for my wife whom I intend to love better than Emily, if possible; [...]
 * 1) *1937: Talks, page 7, by the Columbia Broadcasting System, Inc
 * In the middle of this bandeaux is the cross of Lorraine. These arm-bands are brand new and only recently handed out.
 * 1) * 1968, Frank Herbert, The Santaroga Barrier (ISBN 0–765–34251–0), p26
 * She wore a red dress, her long black hair caught in a matching bandeaux.
 * 1) *1997: Emily Brightwell, Mrs. Jeffries Questions the Answer
 * Her hair, upswept in an elaborate arrangement on top of her head, was circled with a bandeaux that had a flurry of white ostrich feathers.
 * 1) *2001: Marie Thérèse Gass, Unconventional Women: 73 ex-nuns tell their stories
 * [...] and he would not give me a moment to replace it with a bandeaux and simple cap.
 * 1) *2003: R. D. Manning, The Wandering Jew (and Jewess): III REDEMPTION four part screenplay
 * [...] without being fully-dressed, is still attired with more care than usual. Her light hair, instead of being simply arranged in a bandeaux, is curled and [...]
 * 1) *2001: Marie Thérèse Gass, Unconventional Women: 73 ex-nuns tell their stories
 * [...] and he would not give me a moment to replace it with a bandeaux and simple cap.
 * 1) *2003: R. D. Manning, The Wandering Jew (and Jewess): III REDEMPTION four part screenplay
 * [...] without being fully-dressed, is still attired with more care than usual. Her light hair, instead of being simply arranged in a bandeaux, is curled and [...]