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barretting

barretting is the present participle and gerund of barrette.

Meaning of barrette

Verb

barrette (third-person singular simple present barrettes, present participle barretting, simple past and past participle barretted)

  1. (transitive) 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

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Questions about barretting

What is barretting the present participle and gerund of?
Barretting is the present participle and gerund of barrette.

Words near barretting in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: barretting (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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