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Alice band
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English
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Etymology
From Lewis Carroll's fictional Alice, often depicted wearing the headband in the illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass.
Noun
A flexible horseshoe-shaped headband.
en 2003 J. K. Rowling Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix She looked, Harry, thought, like somebody’s maiden aunt: squat, with short, curly, mouse-brown hair in which she had placed a horrible pink Alice band that matched the fluffy pink cardigan she wore over her robes.
Translations
Chinese:
Mandarin: cmn 髮箍, cmn 頭箍
Czech: cs čelenka f
German: de Haarreifen m, de Haarreif m
Icelandic: is hárspöng f
Indonesian: id bando
Japanese: ja カチューシャ kachūsha, ja ヘアバンド heabando
Slovak: sk čelenka f
Slovene: sl naglavni obroč m
Further reading
en eponyms terms derived from fiction
en Lewis Carroll