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  • Wigs for the dolls are imported ready styled, but of course they can be titivated to suit and the long wigs can be plaited.
  • Among Lelouch's films starring Ms. Girardot was 1969's "Un homme qui me plait" "A Man Who Pleases Me", in which she played opposite Jean-Paul Belmondo. Obituaries of note: Annie Girardot, Greg Goossen, Eddie Kirkland
  • I lie under a tartan rug and my fingers twist and plait its fringe; plait, untwist, plait again: the wool is rough against my fingertips. LEARNING TO TALK: SHORT STORIES
  • At the windows, curtains of heavy white jaconet muslin, not too full, hung in sharp parallel plaits to the floor -- just to the floor. The Sorcery Club
  • PARIS Feb 6 Reuters - Yoplait was set to meet this week to discuss bids made for the 50-percent stake that private equity firm PAI Partners holds in the yogurt-maker, a source close to the matter said on Sunday. Reuters: Top News
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  • Attach the bow to the small plait using elastic and hairgrips. The Sun
  • Today her blonde hair is plaited into French braids elaborately tied with huge dark blue and white ribbons, and she's wearing a short, dark blue denim skirt with her tan Uggs.
  • I used to plait her hair: laugh. Richard Temple
  • If your horse's long, flowing mane gets in the way when you're doing dressage or cross-country, try a running plait.
  • She had plaited a chain of daisies and wore it on her head.
  • A serving maid was standing in the doorway; her hair was sleeked back and plaited. Wildfire
  • The woman is slim, young, with blonde hair in plaits.
  • But he wants a helper to plait, braid and grease his hair - which would take another three hours. The Sun
  • Les mémes causes empéchent les moirs qui vivent à la compagne d'avoir des plantations étendues; celles qu'ils cultivent sont bornées, mais généralement assez bien cultivées: de bons habits, _une log house_, ou maison de bois en bon état, des enfans plus nombreux les font remarquer des Européens voyageurs, et l'oeil du philosophe se plaît à considérer ces habitations, où la tyrannie ne fait point verser de pleurs. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
  • -- N.S. (Fig. 141.) Shell fusiform, contracted above the body-whirl, and forming thereby a sub-cylindrical spire; spire obtuse apex papillated and hooked; body-whirl plaited longitudinally at its top; columellar lip furnished with only two plaits. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • Plaits are a great way to embrace the festival vibe, plus they work better with greasier hair. The Sun
  • Now, whoever she was with, there was always one as well, she was never alone now, not in the street, not at home; of this the plait was the sacred symbol. The Bridal March; One Day
  • The reata in those days was nearly always made of plaited raw hide, and often made by the boys themselves, though a good reata required a long time to complete and peculiar skill in the making of it. Ranching, Sport and Travel
  • She was of a burnt sorrel hue, with a little mixture of dapple-grey spots, but above all she had horrible tail; for it was little more or less than every whit as great as the steeple-pillar of St. Mark beside Langes: and squared as that is, with tuffs and ennicroches or hair-plaits wrought within one another, no otherwise than as the beards are upon the ears of corn. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
  • With his trademark single flaxen plait snaking lazily down his jumper, Britain's leading organic gardener certainly appears to practise what he preaches.
  • Children plait them, knot them, and turn them into anything from friendship bracelets to tiny dragons.
  • My mum bought me my very own pair of ruby slippers when I was 12 and she used to plait my hair just like Dorothy!
  • Strikingly tall and model-thin, her hair is scraped back from her face and hangs down her back in a thick, dark, waist-length plait.
  • He brought samples of flour and wheat seeds to explain how bread is made, and youngsters had a chance to have a go at plaiting dough.
  • ‘I'll show you how to wash and plait long hair, kid,’ he offered.
  • The woman was preparing pandanus and plaiting it.
  • I won't have it like that!" declared Zoie, and she shook herself free from Aggie's unwelcome attentions and proceeded to unplait the hateful pigtail. Baby Mine
  • The shell is fusiform and thick, and has a conical spire and a papillated apex; whirls, convex and contracted near the sutures, and the two principal whirls are ornamented with short ribs; lines of growth distinct, and crossed by faint revolving lines; plaits, two and rather distant, and faint indications of an intermediate one. Report of the North-Carolina Geological Survey. Agriculture of the Eastern Counties: Together with Descriptions of the Fossils of the Marl Beds
  • Just in case a passing tourist might suddenly decide to impulse buy a poker-worked Alpenstock, a set of cowbells in diminishing sizes, or a Heidi doll in dirndl and plaits.
  • In each iteration, the plait is copied, and a transformation is applied. Boing Boing: February 19, 2006 - February 25, 2006 Archives
  • His silks, his plaited hair, his very foreign-ness seemed out of place amongst the low oak beams and sturdy yeoman furniture.
  • Harvest the garlic (usually just after Christmas) lay them out on a path or verandah for a week or two until dry, brush them off, plait them together and hang them up.
  • Instead of taking each section under, plait them over each other for better texture. The Sun
  • Palm leaves and bark from trees are plaited to make most household utensils, such as baskets, mats, and fans.
  • Other forms of graphic arts include lacquerware, mother-of-pearl inlay, gold work, nielloware, silverware, wood carving, ceramics, basketry and plaiting, weaving, and painting on paper or canvas.
  • Swantz reports that Zaramo women were highly skilled in plaiting such items as floor mats, baskets, bags, sacks, hats, food covers, and rope. Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE
  • And he said too that she wasn't to plait her hair. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
  • Most recently, the company jumped into the smoothies market, rolling out Yoplait Nouriche, a single-serve non-fat yogurt smoothie, boasting ‘all the nourishment of a meal.’
  • Now and then she would stop to shake her head, toss her smooth honey-coloured plaits over her shoulders, and screw her face into a caricature Aunt Etta's expression. Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday
  • In throwing them they make use of a becket, that is, a piece of stiff plaited cord about six inches long, with an eye in one end and a knot at the other. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 14
  • With the same technique as a french plait, braid across your head, until you reach your other ear. The Sun
  • She shook her head to physically remove the thoughts from her mind, and she set about plaiting her hair into a braid, tying the end with a pale purple ribbon.
  • There was a room full of women's hair, and amongst the hair was a single plait, like Sally has sometimes.
  • It was a small average sized girl with long blonde plaited hair with random purple and indigo streaks in it.
  • If you want to plait the garlic, the leaves should be left as long as possible and moistened to make them supple.
  • She shook her head to physically remove the thoughts from her mind, and she set about plaiting her hair into a braid, tying the end with a pale purple ribbon.
  • I plaited my hair into a thick braid and secured it with a stray thread from the hem of my skirt.
  • The skull-caps of plaited and blackened palm leaf, though common in the interior, are here rare; an imitation is produced by tressing the hair longitudinally from occiput to sinciput, making the head a system of ridges, divided by scalp-lines, and a fan-shaped tuft of scarlet-stained palm frond surmounts the poll. Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo
  • Her way of gathering her thick hair into a crown of plaits above the broad, curving lines of the bandeaux upon her forehead, added to the queenliness of her face. The Deserted Woman
  • The falling mass below the headdress is intended to represent hair dressed according to the Egyptian fashin, in an infinite number of small plaits, each finished off with an ornamental tag. A Thousand Miles Up the Nile
  • Lift the plait on to a greased baking sheet with a fish slice.
  • The customer complains the LSJA0621 department article assemble bore to come amiss and wrinkly severity of its finished product plait.
  • Sa rhétorique adroite, à droite, plaît plus que les laïus des vieux renards en complet Archive 2007-03-01
  • She wore her reddish hair in two long plaits, bound with golden cord.
  • Dressed in tight ripped jeans and a figure-hugging white blouse, her long blonde mane is loose and curly except for a plait at the front. The Sun
  • Her rich and lustrous dark hair was plaited into two long braids over her shoulders, intertwined with cords of gold thread, and lay upon the breast of her purple bliaut stirring and quivering to her long, relaxed breathing as though it had a life of its own. A River So Long
  • Lift the plait on to a greased baking sheet with a fish slice.
  • Wrap your simple plait over the crown of your head for an easy updo. The Sun
  • The woman was preparing pandanus and plaiting it.
  • Girls with long plaits sometimes had the ends dunked in the inkwells of the desks behind!
  • Japanese basketmaking techniques with Kazue Honma: during her first visit to Europe, Kazue will teach the students how to make straw sandals using traditional Japanese plaiting techniques.
  • Ecoutez tous, petits et grands, s'il vows plait de l'entendre, La passion de Jesus-Christ; elle est triste et dolente (bis). Folk Songs of French Canada
  • Raffia, a native of the South Sea Islands and of Madagascar, is the inner bark of the raphia palm, pulled off, torn into narrow strips, dried in the sun, and bound into bunches, which are plaited together and stored ready for use or shipping. Construction Work for Rural and Elementary Schools
  • Her fingers nimbly removed the stones and plait, leaving the auburn hair crimped.
  • Her hair was no longer confined in plaits, but hung down her back to the base of her spine.
  • Her flaxen hair was drawn back in a single plait bound with cord.
  • Well, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg-plaiter. Middlemarch: a study of provincial life (1900)
  • Her honey-brown hair, partially covered by a thin white veil of sendal and crowned with a narrow golden coronet, was dressed in a multitude of thin plaits threaded with jeweled bangles. Conqueror's Moon
  • A stark-naked savage this, and devoid of all adornment excepting a waist-belt of plaited grass and a "sporran" of similar material. Spinifex and Sand
  • Then she plaited her hair and put it up under a short headdress and veil.
  • Most of them could speak a few words of English, but not so Little Wolf-Willow, who arrived from his prairie tepee dressed in buckskin and moccasins, a pretty string of white elks 'teeth about his throat, and his long, straight, black hair braided in two plaits, interwoven with bits of rabbit skin. The Shagganappi
  • Her hair (it had been white from birth, and she looked the faery equivalent of twenty) was in a plait down her back.
  • What they thought of a young woman wearing mud splattered boots and hose, her hair plaited like a child's and in sore need of a bath, I did not know.
  • I did not answer a word, but sat with a wreath of white bouvardia and small adiantum round my head, which I had plaited anyhow. Erema
  • She wore a navy serge skirt, white silk blouse, saxe blue cardigan, and a yard of broad saxe blue ribbon at either end of her waist-long plait.
  • A woman with a blond plait was seen getting out of a car with a man near the canal upstream of Sharpness.
  • Then remove the rollers, and loosely plait the hair from your shoulders to the ends. The Sun
  • She was suddenly interested in her hands, stubby fingers busy plaiting three strands of grass.
  • Try tracing each plaited mat design, making sure you don't change direction at any intersection.
  • A quaint little figure, Lamb comes before our vision, in costume uncontemporary and as queer as himself, consisting of a suit of black cloth (they both affected dark colors), rusty silk stockings shown from the knees, thick shoes a mile too large, shirt with a wide, ill-plaited frill, and tiny white neckcloth tied in a minute bow. Stories of Authors, British and American
  • She looked so pretty, clad in a cornflower blue silk dress that matched her eyes, and wearing her hair in a complex plait; tiny ringlets framing her face.
  • And as to work, he has the garden dug to bits and the whole place smeared with cowdung, and such a crop as was never seen, and the alders all plaited that they looked grand. Later Articles and Reviews
  • Musshoo, s'il vous plait, which is la direction pour aller à Thomas Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge
  • The prince has taken this spectacular heirloom and suspended it from a simple leather plait. Times, Sunday Times
  • Eave breathed out and stepped back, carefully pushing one of Raine's plaits behind her shoulder, brushing a loose strand away from her face.
  • Wednesday, June 17, 2009 at 02: 40 PM policier - police s'il vous plâit ... on a perdu deux chiens .... Creve - French Word-A-Day
  • Yoplait had a stab at chocolate in the late 1980s, but new technologies finally allowed its researchers to surmount the obstacles in adding the flavor to cultured dairy.
  • He had breeches of the same, with rows of buttons from the hips to the knees; a pink silk handkerchief round his neck, gathered through a ring, on the bosom of a neatly-plaited shirt; a sash round the waist to match; bottinas, or spatterdashes, of the finest russet leather, elegantly worked, and open at the calf to show his stockings and russet shoes, setting off a well-shaped foot. The Alhambra
  • She has red-brown, extremely long hair, usually tied in a plait with two dreadlocks behind each ear.
  • Company sources told Business Line that they procured the coir, separated the fibre, sprayed fungicide to prevent termite infestation and then plaited it with thin bamboo sticks.
  • I used to plait her hair: laugh. Richard Temple
  • Sumangala's mother, daughter of poor people, wife of a rush-plaiter, Sāvatthī Psalms of the Sisters
  • I looked up as he came closer, but Andreus coiled up the lash into a plaited leather loop and hit me across the back of the neck with it, forcing my eyes back down.
  • Over the top of the head, long locks of hair are plaited together in a braid that falls in a loop behind the occiput, with its end secured to the rest of the braid by a small band or fillet.
  • Merci beaucoup! comptoir gouttelette policier s'il vous plâit ... on a perdu deux chiens .... fourgonnette bon médaille Creve - French Word-A-Day
  • I watched the bread loaf being lovingly plaited as if surgery were being performed and wondered if eating haggis would be a comparable ritual for me.
  • The Queen's night-cap was a very large full cap with plaited ruffles, which is made familiar to us through the portraits of Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771
  • Each drawing, a veritable webbing of wispy white lines that merge, plait, and even throb across their surfaces of coal-black paper, offers a new and semiopaque supernatural vision of worlds -- of creatures, of material, of flora -- that only our imaginations can rightly access. ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest
  • When day had fully come he pressed into my hands my morning-gift: A necklet and paired bracelets of red gold, worked and plaited like living hair encircling my throat and wrists, of beauty unsurpassed.
  • Here it was that he discovered that her wrists were bound together behind her back with a kind of plait of thongs so intricate that he was quite unable to release them. Lore of Proserpine
  • She began to plait her long white hair over her shoulder, yanking the tangles apart without grimacing.
  • Turn to the word ‘hair’ and one can see illustrations of various ‘hair styles’, like French plait, bob, crew cut and so on.
  • They also cook, play cards, sing songs, baby-sit and plait rope out of camel wool.
  • a slick for that purpose, a use to which our nails were afterwards applied with great advantage, and through these holes a kind of plaited cordage is passed, so as to hold the planks strongly together: The seams are caulked with dried rushes, and the whole outside of the vessel is paid with a gummy juice, which some of their trees produce in great plenty, and which is a very good succedaneum for pitch. A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 12 Arranged in Systematic Order: Forming a Complete History of the Origin and Progress of Navigation, Discovery, and Commerce, by Sea and Land, from the Earliest Ages to the Present Time
  • Step four When all the hair is in the braid, continue with a simple plait. The Sun
  • They showed up on the runways in all ways, shapes and forms, from chunky plaits and blunt cuts to layered styles with wispy ends and long braided ponytails.
  • After lighting a sandalwood incense stick, Jacey began to unplait her hair. The Season of Risks
  • Will they be able to plait hair? Times, Sunday Times
  • Her hair was very wet, and she began deliberately to take it down and unplait it. The Heavenly Twins
  • I used to plait her hair: laugh. Richard Temple
  • The ceremony took various forms, but most ended with the sheaf being taken back to the farm where it was plaited into an intricate ‘corn dolly’ or ‘mell doll’.
  • Black strands were falling from her firm plait of hair, and her face looked ashen in the firelight.
  • The pretty _désas_ of plaited palm and bamboo, hiding in depths of tropical woodland, with blue thunbergia clambering over every verandah, and the Through the Malay Archipelago
  • Policemen filed in; one or two cases were tried and dismissed, the Malay witnesses trembling from head to foot, and then the wretch from the cage was brought in looking hardly human, as, from under his shaggy, unshaven hair and unplaited pigtail which hung over his chest, he cast furtive, frightened glances at the array before him. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
  • She wore her long dark hair in side plait and she wore red tracksuit bottoms and a hooded top.
  • Ann selected a breakfast bap with chips, and a pecan plait.
  • The result was that men all wore plaited queues, but the women refused to obey the order, and continued to have their feet bound.
  • So now all I have to do is plait the onions before I hang them in the garage.
  • For a young man using stud or plaiting your hair, hell awaits you ... Road and Bus Evangelism: My take
  • This core could be embellished by plaiting different grades of iron together in patterns to create beautiful ‘pattern welded’ blades.
  • A girl suspended from school after refusing to remove her new hair extensions and plaits will not be returning to her classroom - even though her hair is back to normal.
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  • Her hair was plaited into one long heavy braid hanging down her back, presumably for ease when travelling.
  • Here's my list of translations: comptoir: counter (as in a store) gouttelet: droplets policier: Policeman s'il vous plâit ... on a perdu deux chiens: please ... we've lost two dogs fourgonnette: small van bon: good or "alright then" in this instance médaille: medallion/tag Creve - French Word-A-Day
  • Once in Lhasa I tried to buy a turquoise necklace off a very attractive young woman with high red cheekbones and coral beads in her plaited hair.
  • Apparemment ce président en mal de résultat positif veut faire passer, et cela plait beaucoup aux occidentaux en ces moments incertains de crise, son peuple comme un ramassis de crétins et d´incapables. Global Voices in English » D.R. of Congo: Furor Over Kabila’s New York Times Interview
  • (“Voyages of Captain Cook round the World,” vol. i., chapter vi.) says that in the throwing of darts “they make use of the becket, that is, a piece of stiff plaited cord, about six inches long, with an eye in one end and a knot in the other. Tropic Days
  • I remember a dance given by handsome Mrs. Forrest, when I wore a white "book-muslin," with my hair glued to my head with bandoline, then plaited in sixteen-strand braids coiled in a basket low upon the neck, in which were inserted Harrison, Mrs. Burton, 1843-1920. Recollections Grave and Gay
  • She wore her fair hair looped in intricate plaiting, the whole snooded in a gem-spangled net. Web Of The Witch World
  • The girl had her hair in pigtails or plaits and was wearing a purple coat, black shoes, white tights and a dark skirt.
  • I brushed my hair, then braided it in a single plait down my back that hung to my waist.
  • Marie was blessed with a mane of flaxen hair which normally she wore plaited and doubly looped by ribbons at her neck. ADRIENNE AND THE CHALET SCHOOL
  • She tossed her long plait over her shoulder and her cornflower blue eyes narrowed. DEAD BEAT
  • Take some chicken breasts, slice them in halves, add some cheese I used a 'trecchia' that is sold locally, it's a kind of plaited mozzarella and a generous amount of your pesto. What I cooked last night.
  • Ferez-vous des croquis de chevaux s'il vous plait merci North Africa Trek
  • Instead of taking each section under, plait them over each other for better texture. The Sun
  • Onward and upward he led until all at once we reached a narrow platform, railed round and hung about with plaited rope screens which he called splinter-mats, over which I had a view of land and water, of ships and basins, of miles of causeways and piers, none of which had been in existence before the war. Great Britain at War
  • Practiced fingers removed the little blue pony-tail holder and began to unplait my braid. Touch of Evil
  • Stunning Bo caused a stir when she ran along the beach in slow motion wearing only a gold swimsuit and plaits in her hair.
  • Come, come, get on your dressing-gown and unplait your hair. III. Confidential Moments. Book VI—The Great Temptation
  • He rode, not a mule, like his companion, but a strong hackney for the road, to save his gallant war-horse, which a squire led behind, fully accoutred for battle, with a chamfron or plaited head-piece upon his head, having a short spike projecting from the front. Ivanhoe
  • It was his pleasure to unpin her hair, unplait the long crimped hair with its nutmeg-smell, its mildly rank unwashed monkey-smell he loved. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
  • She put her hair into two plaits and walked the rest of the way to school.
  • The meal finishes with koeksisters, plaits of deep fried dough dipped in syrup.
  • The red velvet tunic was plaited along the edges with gold and silver thread, and the front of it was richly decorated with the silver fleurs-de-lys, which is the most ancient symbol of Florence. Vittorio, The Vampire
  • It was woven and plaited in a manner similar to lace making, then mounted with gold or gilt fittings.
  • She, too, having made her resolve under former Buddhas, and heaping up good in this rebirth and that, was born under this Buddha-dispensation in a poor family at Sāvatthī, and was married to a rush-plaiter. Psalms of the Sisters
  • She then proceeded to braid her long red hair into a plait and wrap it around her head like a crown.
  • The other: a slender splayfoot chair of glossy cane curves, placed directly opposite the former, its frame from top to seat and from seat to base being varnished dark brown, its seat being a bright circle of white plaited rush. Ulysses
  • The woman who swept the stone courtyard wore a traditional Tibetan gown, trim and dark, and had plaited her raven hair into a thick braid.
  • She stopped and tilted her head to the side, but her dark hair remained plastered to her forehead, a few frizzy strands escaping her plait.
  • These are plaited into single strands and a loose wad of silk tied to the end.
  • I lie under a tartan rug and my fingers twist and plait its fringe.
  • I plaited her hair so that it fell in one long rope of yellow to her narrow waist.
  • Aisling Young is eight, made her First Holy Communion in May and her granny plaited her hair for the occasion.
  • Divide the mane into equal sections and damp each section before you start plaiting.
  • Frizzy straight-cut masses that would have charmed Rossetti abounded, and one gentleman, who was pointed out to Graham under the mysterious title of an “amorist”, wore his hair in two becoming plaits a la Marguerite. When the Sleeper Wakes
  • Other forms of graphic arts include lacquerware, mother-of-pearl inlay, gold work, nielloware, silverware, wood carving, ceramics, basketry and plaiting, weaving, and painting on paper or canvas.
  • The prince has taken this spectacular heirloom and suspended it from a simple leather plait. Times, Sunday Times
  • Celia was wearing turquoise corduroy bell-bottoms and a tank top, her hair in two French plaits.
  • As the little cavalcade proceeded, the Indian guide, who wore a peaked plaited straw hat called jipijapa, a pair of white cotton pantaloons, and a heavy-bladed knife -- a machete -- hanging at his waist, with his machete occasionally slashed off a cane, to suck. Gold Seekers of '49
  • Delicately I untied the ribbon that bound his hair and unplaited the silken locks, running my fingers through their length.
  • He very much admired the characteristic hexagonal plaiting. Steve Beimel: Meetings With Remarkable People in Japan: Jozan Sugita
  • Curly blonde hair in a single plait, thick fair eyebrows and a small, pouting mouth. DEATH SPEAKS SOFTLY
  • In the same play we find Margaret objecting to her mistress's wearing a certain rebato (_a large plaited ruff_), on the morning of her wedding: may not this be intended to relate to the fact that Margaret had dressed in her mistress's clothes the night before? A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shakespeare
  • The watch shown in Plate III typifies such memorial jewelry, combining a plait of woven hair surrounded by a wreath of silver forget-me-nots set with rose-cut diamonds, and a circle of half pearls around the watchcase.
  • She has reddy brown extremely long hair usually tied in a plait and she has two dreadlocks behind each ear.
  • Apr. 377/1 At the back, the jacket is laid in postillion-plaits. Hammer Ser | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • Like the fasces carried by Roman lictors, weaving, in which separate strands are plaited together to form a new and far more robust entity, becomes the embodiment of communal strength and unity of purpose.
  • Then, again, the strange successive fashions in this same unnatural, unneedful depilation; look at the vagaries of young France: not to descend also to savage men, and their clumsy shell-scrapings; and to devote but little time to the voluminous topic of wigs, male and female, cavalier and caxon, Marlborough and monstrous maccaroni -- from the plaited An Author's Mind : The Book of Title-pages
  • Her bleached blonde hair is dragged up into neat golden coils of plaiting, like a sleeping snake on her head.
  • I drove in stakes and plaited the withies around them. Wildfire
  • Simply French plait the front section on a side parting and pin loosely behind one ear. Times, Sunday Times
  • She plaited her long hair into one braid down her back.
  • If you're showing, check any relevant breed society guidelines first - pure-bred Arabs and natives should be shown with full, unplaited manes, whilst part-breds should have their manes pulled and plaited.
  • Off the campaign trail, the plait is to become summer's most pernicious beauty trend. Times, Sunday Times
  • One day during that festive week his youngest wife went to plait her hair and forgot to return to his compound to fix her part of his afternoon meal.
  • But the Qing were also Manchu invaders, who forced every Chinese man to wear his hair in a long plait as a sign of subjection and instigated a literary inquisition that codified what could and could not be read in China.
  • It was about twelve feet in length, eight feet being the lash, which had for the last two feet what we called a cracker, made of plaited horsehair and cotton, mixed. Sunshine and Shadow of Slave Life. Reminiscences As Told by Isaac D. Williams to "Tege"
  • Musshoo, s'il vous plait, which is la direction pour aller à le Palais Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge
  • Jeanine is about to "plait" or braid Suzy's hair when we get back from town. ill be sure to post pics : S’more pics!
  • -- When the vertical stitches are laid, a kind of plait is formed in the following way. Encyclopedia of Needlework
  • He himself was a large man, with a thick gray beard and braided gray plaits hanging down from beneath his open-faced helmet. THE LIGHTSTONE: BOOK ONE, PART TWO OF THE EA CYCLE
  • It was his pleasure to unpin her hair, unplait the long crimped hair with its nutmeg-smell, its mildly rank unwashed monkey-smell he loved. MIDDLE AGE: A ROMANCE
  • I think he is going to be OK, "she says, friendly and smiley, her long hair plaited in abraid on one side of her head. 'I don't want to live on the dole and sell weed'
  • He shoved his completed narrative back under the roll-top of Devore's desk, where the city editor would see it the very first thing when he came to work; and as he straightened up with a little grunt of satisfaction and stretched his arms out the last of his fine-linen shirts, with a rending sound, ripped down the plaited front, from collarband almost to waistline. The Escape of Mr. Trimm His Plight and other Plights
  • She began to unplait the braid in which she had slept. The Dressmaker
  • Simply French plait the front section on a side parting and pin loosely behind one ear. Times, Sunday Times
  • They make _mos-quil-moots_, or hunting bags, of plaited _babiche_, or deerskin thongs, for the use of the men. The Drama of the Forests Romance and Adventure
  • The wicker is very delicately plaited, and is ornamented with a pattern in chenille which is very easy to work. Beeton's Book of Needlework
  • Further etymology takes the French word ruche to “beehive,” an allusion to the frills and plaits of a straw hive. The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time
  • Her body, carved and faceted with all of the concentrated vigor of an Expressionist woodcut and burnished a brick red, gives way to a thick plait of wiry gray hair.
  • A capacious faux-raffia tote with plaited-leather handles and an optional shoulder strap reverses to reveal a coordinating shade on the back.
  • Personally, this sheds light on the hours I spent as a child fidgeting anxiously between my momma's, grandma's or aunt's knees while they parted, greased and plaited my hair.
  • He has also shown that the initiation and development of the columellar plaits in Voluta, Mitra, and other gasteropod molluscs Lamarck, the Founder of Evolution His Life and Work
  • After several plaits, there will be no loose hair left to gather.
  • She was coyly twirling one of her dark gold plaits in one hand.
  • The stitch shown in fig. 69, known as plait or Cretan, is commonly seen on Cretan and other Eastern embroideries. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
  • Step four When all the hair is in the braid, continue with a simple plait. The Sun
  • Then remove the rollers, and loosely plait the hair from your shoulders to the ends. The Sun

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