bandeau

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ban=deau

CIDE DICTIONARY

bandeau, n. [F.].

 A narrow band or fillet, as for the hair, part of a headdress, etc.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
"Around the edge of this cap was a stiff bandeau of leather."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bandeau, n. (pl. bandeaux) a narrow band worn round the head.

Etymology

F

THESAURUS

bandeau

achievement, advocate, alerion, alpenstock, animal charge, annulet, argent, arm, armorial bearings, armory, arms, athletic supporter, azure, back, backbone, backing, band, bar, bar sinister, baton, bearer, bearings, bend, bend sinister, billet, blazon, blazonry, bordure, bra, brace, bracer, bracket, brassiere, broad arrow, buttress, cadency mark, cane, canton, carrier, cervix, chaplet, charge, chevron, chief, coat of arms, cockatrice, coronet, corset, crescent, crest, crook, cross, cross moline, crown, crutch, device, difference, differencing, eagle, ermine, ermines, erminites, erminois, escutcheon, falcon, falsies, fess, fess point, field, file, fillet, flanch, fleur-de-lis, foundation garment, fret, fulcrum, fur, fusil, garland, girdle, griffin, gules, guy, guywire, gyron, hatchment, helmet, heraldic device, honor point, impalement, impaling, inescutcheon, jock, jockstrap, label, lion, lozenge, mainstay, maintainer, mantling, marshaling, martlet, mascle, mast, metal, motto, mullet, neck, nombril point, octofoil, or, ordinary, orle, pale, paly, pean, pheon, prop, purpure, quarter, quartering, reinforce, reinforcement, reinforcer, rest, resting place, ribbon, rigging, rose, sable, saltire, scutcheon, shield, shoulder, shroud, soutien-gorge, spine, spread eagle, sprit, staff, standing rigging, stave, stay, stick, stiffener, strengthener, stripe, subordinary, support, supporter, sustainer, tenne, tincture, torse, tressure, unicorn, upholder, vair, vert, walking stick, wreath, yale