pigtails

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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

Dressed up as Minnie Mouse, in red and white polka dot clothes and hair in pigtails, Bea takes to the paddock alongside her vaulting partner.

From BBC • Dec. 8, 2023

The morning after her operation, Alexandra, her hair in pigtails, shuffled slowly around her hospital room.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2023

She had her hair in pigtails, as always, and wore the same faded flour-sack dress I’d seen her in at school.

From "Mississippi Trial, 1955" by Chris Crowe