bandeau

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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Borrowed from French bandeau, from Old French bandel, diminutive form of bande. Doublet of bendel.

She appeared exactly as she did in September, with the same broad face, diamond bandeau, white shoes, pink husband, and fat neck. — Jane Austen, Her Life and Letters: A Family Record, William Austen-Leigh
Kirby's eyes widened as he beheld a single rose-cut diamond two inches in diameter, mounted in an exquisitely simple bandeau of wrought gold. — Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930, Various
On their heads were skull-caps of silver tissue, each having a thirty-inch-high aigrette supported by a thin bandeau of gold, set with crystals and olivines, the gift of the bride.... Their stockings were of white lace openwork, the left knee of each being clasped by the bridegroom's souvenir, a garter of gold, crystal, and olivines. — That Which Hath Wings: A Novel of the Day, Richard Dehan

brassiere, bra

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