bandeau

Noun

bandeau (plural bandeaux or bandeaus)

1. A band for the hair.
   • She wore a bandeau in her hair.
   • You dress with a square glass before you, and a long glass behind you; your hair trusts to its own brown or black attractions, either curled or braided,—or you put on a wreath, a bunch of flowers, or a pearl bandeau;...1831, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter XVIII, in Romance and Reality. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 221
2. A band.
   • The frontal bandeau is then elevated en bloc. A Bi on BC1 (Midas Rex) bit is used to create the osteotomies circumferentially.1998, AANS Publications Committee: Setti S. Rengachary, MD, and Edward C. Benzel, MD, Calvarial and Dural Reconstruction: Neurosurgical Topics
   • 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 [...]1999, Bill C. Terry, Maxime Champy, Franz Härle, et al, Atlas of Craniomaxillofacial Osteosynthesis: miniplates, microplates, and screws
3. A narrow, tight bra, especially when strapless; hence, any women's top made from a similar band of fabric.
   • At Paris fashion week, a few weeks later, Kim’s sister Kendall wore a minimalist black bandeau top that echoed Kim’s look.2016 December 13, Jess Cartner-Morley, The Guardian