barrette
/bəˈɹɛt/
barrette noun: a clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
Noun
barrette (plural barrettes)
- 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
- A bar used to mount medals of chivalric orders.
- Synonym of katepimeron.
- Synonyms:
- katepimeron
Verb
barrette (third-person singular simple present barrettes, present participle barretting, simple past and past participle barretted)
- To put (hair) into a barrette.
- The standing woman is overweight, with scraped-back and barretted bleach- blond hair and a jowly face of detonated capillaries.2004, Glen Duncan, Death of an Ordinary Man, →ISBN
- With her barretted white hair, blue eyes, and deep green sweater, Victoria is as perfectly put together as ever.2007, Rachel Kadish, Tolstoy Lied: A Love Story, →ISBN, page 219
Proper noun capitalized: Barrette
Barrette (plural Barrettes)
- A surname from French.
barrette meaning in Tamil and Gujarati
barrette in Tamil
- கம்பி மின்தடுப்பு
barrette in Gujarati
- barrette
- બકલ bakal
Synonyms of barrette
Forms of barrette
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | barrettes |
| alternative form | barette |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | barrettes |
| present participle | barretting |
| past participle | barretted |
| past | barretted |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Barrettes |
Origin of barrette
Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“a bar”) + -ette, literally a small bar.
Words that rhyme with barrette
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- upset
- vignette
- whet
- sett
- cornet
- let
- manchette
- roulette
- yet
- cadet
- cassette
- collarette
- forget
- pet
- banquette
- met
- mignonette
- musette
- octet
- reset
- unset
- abet
- beget
- brunette
- cuvette
- debt
- dinette
- dudette
- duet
- minuet
- navette
- planchette
- quartet
- regret
- silhouette
- vinaigrette
- aid and abet
- amourette
- bavette
- bet
- brett
- briquette
- corvette
- couchette
- enucleate
- fossette
- grisette
- ket
Questions about barrette
- What does barrette mean?
- Barrette means a clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
- What is barrette in Tamil?
- Barrette in Tamil is கம்பி மின்தடுப்பு. See Barrette meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is barrette?
- Barrette can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce barrette?
- Barrette is pronounced /bəˈɹɛt/.
- What is the plural of barrette?
- The plural of barrette is barrettes.
Words near barrette in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: barrette (page history and authors); Barrette (page history and authors); barrette (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); બકલ (Gujarati) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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