bandeau

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a band for the hair.

   Next time I go to school I'm going to Yale or Harvard or some such place, and I'll learn so much mathematics and science that I'll have to wear a bandeau to keep my massive intellect in place."

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

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