plait

A name given to a plait made with the strands of a rope, which forms part of several useful and ornamental knots.

Her shining hair was--compressed into a plait that would have done credit to a rope-maker.

"I don't intend to plait my hair in a queue any more," Hamish declared contemptuously.

With trembling fingers she took off her bonnet, and unfastened her hair from its plait.

I was born of poor and honest parents; and my father, who was a basket-maker by trade, taught me to plait all kinds of baskets.

With fingers clumsy, yet gentle, he took off the ribbon and cautiously undid the plait.

Her tiny feet tripped a waltz, while the plait kept up an accompanying polka.

And she went back to the mirror, and began to plait her hair, the more conveniently to tuck it under her night-cap.

A March Elf should wear her hair in a plait at the back, tied up with a bow of ribbon, and curled a little in front.

On her head were two golden-yellow tresses, in each of which was a plait of four locks, with a bead at the point of each lock.