"Alice band" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: Alice bands [plural]
Etymology: From Lewis Carroll's fictional Alice, often depicted wearing the headband in the illustrations in Through the Looking-Glass. Head templates: {{en-noun}} Alice band (plural Alice bands)
  1. A flexible horseshoe-shaped headband. Wikipedia link: Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass Translations (Translations): 髮箍 /发箍 (fàgū) (Chinese Mandarin), 頭箍 /头箍 (tóugū) (Chinese Mandarin), čelenka [feminine] (Czech), Haarreifen [masculine] (German), Haarreif [masculine] (German), hárspöng [feminine] (Icelandic), カチューシャ (kachūsha) (Japanese), ヘアバンド (heabando) (Japanese), čelenka [feminine] (Slovak), naglavni obroč [masculine] (Slovene)

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