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balayage (countable and uncountable, plural balayages)

(cosmetics) A hair colouring technique in which colour is applied by hand.
- 2025 November 6, Ellie Muir, “In All's Fair, the girlboss archetype has never been more embarrassing”, in The Independent‎[1], archived from the original on 16 February 2026:
  Born in the mid-2010s, the concept of the girlboss promised a utopia where women could bulldoze into workplaces, pull up a seat at male-dominated tables and become a celebrated CEO on the Forbes 30 Under 30 List by the ripe age of 23 (and do it all, of course, wearing a fuchsia blazer and a balayage hairdo).
(mathematics) A method for reconstructing a harmonic function.

From balayer +‎ -age.

balayage m (plural balayages)

→ English: balayage
→ German: Balayage
→ Polish: balejaż, balayage
“balayage”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-tós

Middle French -age

Polish balayage

balayage m inan

“balayage”, in Wielki słownik języka polskiego‎[2] (in Polish), Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
“balayage”, in Polish dictionaries at PWN‎[3] (in Polish)