Obs. [corruption of F. bandeau ‘anciennement, coiffure des veuves’ (Littré).] A widow’s head-dress.
a. 1712. W. King, Ovid’s Ars Am., 142. Our grandmothers, they tell us, wore Their fardingale and their Bandore.
1719. D’Urfey, Pills (1872), II. 11. The buxom Widow, with Bandore and Peak.
