pigtail
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A wiry longtime martial arts practitioner who sometimes wears his hair in long pigtail braids, the 53-year-old Nguyen plays the role of firearms sensei.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 9, 2024
Mitchell sat in the centre, wearing a pink floral silk shirt, with her hair in pigtail braids under a purple beret, and carrying a cane adorned with a small bear's head.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2023
Although the servers’ pigtail stories are far from scientific, experts aren’t surprised.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022
Same size, different headers, but there’s a pigtail of breakout cables that do most of the same things.
From The Verge ● Jul. 29, 2021
He had grown taller and his pigtail was gone but he was the same boy.
From "Homesick" by Jean Fritz
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But "when I'm with Hyodol, I never get hurt", she said, holding the cuddly doll with pigtails and a pink gingham dress, provided by her local municipality.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
Now he is raising a 4-year-old daughter with the help of Barnica’s younger brother; every weekend, they take her to see her grandmother, who knows how to braid her hair in pigtails.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
The drummer, Janet Weiss, played harder than pretty much anyone I’d ever seen, of any gender, and she sometimes wore pigtails.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
His dark curls spill out of the bottom of his helmet and sometimes poke like pigtails out of vents on top.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2023
Standing next to her was...the girl with the pigtails?
From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm