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barrettes

barrettes is the plural of barrette.

barrettes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of barrette.

Meaning of barrette

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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Proper noun capitalized: Barrettes

Barrettes

  1. (plural) plural of Barrette

Questions about barrettes

What is barrettes the plural of?
Barrettes is the plural of barrette.
What part of speech is barrettes?
Barrettes is a proper noun.

Words near barrettes in the dictionary

  1. Barrettas
  2. barrette
  3. barretted
  4. barretter
  5. barretters
  6. barrettes
  7. barretting
  8. Barretto
  9. Barrettos
  10. Barretts
  11. Barretts Creek

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barrettes (page history and authors); Barrettes (page history and authors); barrette (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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