plait

How to use plait in a sentence

For a moment I was as dumbfounded as the bridegroom who discovers a plait of hair on his brides dressing table.

They plait it very ingeniously in small tresses, frequently making more than a hundred.

He learnt to plait the foliage of faded crocuses, and pin them tidily to the ground with little wooden forks.

HYACINTHGEORGE A. BIRMINGHAM

The Egyptian jewellers employed wire, both to lay down on a background and to plait or otherwise arrange jour.

As she began to twist it into one heavy plait, she walked to the window and stood looking out.

THE SECOND LATCHKEYCHARLES NORRIS WILLIAMSON AND ALICE MURIEL WILLIAMSON

He saw his sister in her white nightdress, with her long plait of hair down her back, standing in the darkness.

SONS AND LOVERSDAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

Paul put the long thin plait of grey hair over her shoulder and kissed her.

SONS AND LOVERSDAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE

The Cadi was a fine-looking old man, his white turban was without a plait, and he was enveloped in a fine woollen hayk.

All wear their hair in a long plait, which falls below their shoulders like the pigtail of the Chinese.

The letters in the corner imply "Répondez, s'il vous plait;" meaning, "an answer will oblige."

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985