Pl. -eaux. [Fr.:—OF. bandel, dim. form from bande BAND sb.2; cf. BANDORE2.] a. A narrow band or fillet worn by women to bind the hair, or as part of a head-dress. b. A bandage for the eyes.
c. 1790. Miss Burney, Diary (1842), I. 98 (D.). That bandeau … was worn by every woman at court.
a. 1847. Mrs. Sherwood, Lady of Manor, III. xxi. 277. Just make up this bandeau for my hair.
1858[?]. C. J. Mathews, Autobiog. (1879), I. 308. In a laced night-cap with sky-blue bandeau.
1861. Gen. P. Thompson, Audi Alt., III. clxi. 175. The Chancellor of the Exchequer, as Paul Louis said of fortune, sees under his bandeau.
