barette

Noun

barrette (plural barrettes)

1. A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
   • 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...1960, John Updike, 'Rabbit, Run', page 30
2. A bar used to mount medals of chivalric orders.
3. Synonym of katepimeron.

   Synonyms:

   katepimeron

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