plait
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For the unaware, that classic acronym comes from the French phrase Répondez s'il vous plait.
From Salon • Nov. 22, 2023
"When we saw the photo and she's sitting there with her plait and her doll she would say, 'I wonder who the other two girls are?',"
From BBC • Jul. 2, 2023
Assembling a loaf of challah, the briochelike Jewish bread coated with a soft brown egg wash and braided in a classic plait, is another undertaking entirely.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2021
I will, however, send a JRPMP: Je réponds parce-qu’il ME plait — “because it pleases me.”
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2017
“I keep thinking about the hair on that child’s head I saw on the train; it was very thick. It must have been work for her mother to plait it.”
From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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