different between barrette vs hairpin

English

Alternative forms

• barette

Etymology

Borrowed from French barrette, from barre (“bar”) +? -ette, literally “small bar”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b????t/

Noun

barrette (plural barrettes)

1. A clasp or clip for gathering and holding the hair.
2. (entomology) Synonym of katepimeron.

Synonyms

• hairclip
• hair-slide
• hairslide

Translations

See also

• hairpin

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.

   • With her barretted white hair, blue eyes, and deep green sweater, Victoria is as perfectly put together as ever.

   • She pulled her long hair up and barretted it so that her long exotic earrings put the finishing touch to her exquisite appearance.

Anagrams

• batterer, berretta

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ba.??t/

Etymology 1

From barre +? -ette.

Noun

barrette f (plural barrettes)

1. small bar
2. barrette (US), (hair) slide (UK)
3. brooch
4. bar (of medal)
5. (colloquial) bar/slab of hash

Descendants

• ? English: barrette

Etymology 2

From Italian barretta.

Noun

barrette f (plural barrettes)

1. (religion) biretta

Further reading

• “barrette” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

barrette f

1. plural of barretta

Anagrams

• berretta

English

Alternative forms

• hair pin, hair-pin

Etymology

From hair +? pin, 1788 (as hair pin). Adjective sense 1906 in hairpin turn etc.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?he??p?n/

Noun

hairpin (plural hairpins)

1. A pin or fastener for the hair.
2. (biology) A kind of ribozyme; hairpin ribozyme.
3. (chiefly attributive) A very tight bend in a road.
   • 2009, Bob Sehlinger, Grant Rafter, Beyond Disney (page 280)

     The variety of angles in the course, from slow bends to hairpins, will both test your skill as a driver and allow you the opportunity to pass other carts.

4. (music) An elongated v-shaped sign placed underneath a staff to indicate a crescendo

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• barrette
• dogleg
• switchback

References