[ US /ˈbɹeɪd/ ]
[ UK /bɹˈe‍ɪd/ ]
NOUN
  1. trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains
  2. a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
VERB
  1. decorate with braids or ribbons
    braid a collar
  2. form or weave into a braid or braids
    braid hair
  3. make by braiding or interlacing
    lace a tablecloth
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How To Use braid In A Sentence

  • Its bright black eyes were alert and watching, ready to upbraid or condemn or love, same as any capable adult thing. WICKED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF THE WICKED WITCH OF THE WEST
  • Clara looked momentarily disconcerted but wasn't about to concede defeat after upbraiding Nicholas a moment before.
  • Now as Tera lay out with her hair coated in conditioner, Mari unbraided her own hair, listened to her iPod, and enjoyed rays. Kresley Cole Immortals After Dark: The Clan MacRieve
  • When someone seems, by any reasonable standard, so intent on braiding the rope, tying the knot, and hanging himself with it, it's easy to suppose that the best thing to do is to stand back so everyone can have an unimpaired view.
  • All of which begs the question as to whether or not somebody SHOULD make a MMORPG based on the Wheel of Time series, though if they do I look forward to a variety of braid tugging and skirt smoothing emotes along with an "agelessness" slider in the character creation tool. The Ancient Gaming Noob
  • Lord Allen may have been wrong in his head, or ill-advised, or foolishly over-zealous, but his ill-tempered upbraiding of the Dublin Corporation for what he called their treasonable extravagance in thus honouring Swift, whom he deemed an enemy of the King, was the act of a fool. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. - Volume 07 Historical and Political Tracts-Irish
  • When Sir Beaumains heard her say so, he abraid up with a great might and gat him upon his feet, and lightly he leapt to his sword and gripped it in his hand, and doubled his pace unto the Red Knight, and there they fought a new battle together. Le Morte Darthur: Sir Thomas Malory's Book of King Arthur and of his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Volume 1
  • It shows a beautiful young black woman with a large mass of curly and braided hair, her head turned in three-quarter view toward us.
  • She unbraided her hair, unhooked her silver bracelet from her left wrist, and laid it on the counter.
  • Back on land where we could sink safely into the snow up to our ankles and giggle at our own bravery, there was an angry woman who didn't speak English, upbraiding us in a way that needed no translation.
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