bandelet

[ ban-dl-et, -dl-it, ban-dl-et ]

noun

, Architecture.

1. a flat molding, broader than a fillet and narrower than a fascia.
2. annulet ( def 1 ).

Word History and Origins

Origin of bandelet¹

1640–50; < French bandelette, equivalent to Old French bandele (feminine of bandel bandeau ) + -ete -ette

Example Sentences

They arranged their bandelets, rubbed their little sandals with white resin, and waited with extended arms for the music to begin . . .

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Encircled by bandelets of light, it had still beamed upon him; vaguely historic and prophetic; backward, hinting of some irrevocable sin; forward, pointing to some inevitable ill.

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But high on her brow, still shone her pale crescent; haloed by bandelets—violet, red, and yellow.

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These young girls, like all the other women, wore waist-cloths made of bandelets of cotton, which is the costume of the women of Cariai.

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Their long, graceful drapery was as white as snow; and each wore loosely, beneath the rounded bosom, a dark-blue zone, or bandelet, studded, like the skies at midnight, with little silver stars.

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