Alice band

noun

Etymology

From Lewis Carroll's fictional Alice, often depicted wearing the headband in the illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass.

Definitions

  1. A flexible horseshoe-shaped headband.

    • 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.

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