plait

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

The male representative of this species proudly sports a pork pie straw hat, half Panama and half boater, so obviously transatlantic that every plait in it gives forth a twang.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023

Sisters from El Salvador plait one another’s hair; men from Cameroon await an asylum hearing on the far side.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 12, 2019

She had brilliant gold hair braided into a circle at her crown, with wisps catching on the cowl and poking wildly out of the plait.

From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack

“When I was going to school, I wanted to be Fats Domino, Professor Longhair, and I would wear a wig with two plaits and call myself Professor Longhair,” Henry told the AP.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 8, 2024

Bell is living up to the potential that she promised as a tall, ambitious teenager, boasting those trademark plaits and an infectious love of the game.

From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2024

And at least two of the witnesses testified that one of the shooters had shoulder length locs or plaits, a hairstyle that McDaniel has but neither Moses nor Mayfield had, according to court testimony.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 9, 2022

Some quipus descend from high ceilings like the bloody entrails of ancient matriarchs; others are nothing more than plaits of grass.

From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022

She was tall and graceful with long hair the color of chocolate, braided in plaits with gold ribbons.

From "The Battle of the Labyrinth" by Rick Riordan

Elsewhere in Haute Couture Week, Puerto Rican music star Bad Bunny sat front row for the Schiaparelli show in a pastel yellow-coloured suit and a tie of plaited golden strands.

From Barron's ● Jul. 6, 2026

The young millennial rocked different hairstyles and loved switching it up: a curly Afro one week, two-strand twists the next, micro plaited braids and a range of cornrow designs.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 19, 2024

"My mam plaits it in two plaits so it goes directly between my spine... She has always plaited my hair since so it's kind of a tradition now."

From BBC ● Nov. 18, 2024

This week, the bakers are instructed to make a plaited bread centerpiece.

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2023

Her sandy hair was pulled back into twin plaited pigtails, each tied with a bright-red ribbon.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

It takes a willingness to understand and honor the hairstyle's origins and what that plaiting symbolizes to accept that not everybody should flaunt it.

From Salon ● May 2, 2025

“It is less risky if we go as a group,” she said while plaiting her friend’s hair.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 9, 2022

What I suddenly think of is my dad plaiting my hair when I was nine years old, in the first few weeks after my mum left.

From The Guardian ● Dec. 28, 2019

John Frieda Frizz Ease Clearly Defined Gel was Aspiras' go-to while plaiting the two side braids, which he secured with clear elastics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2018

And at night, after Grandma cooked our dinner and cleaned up too, she sat by the bed, brushing and plaiting Mama’s hair, and singing songs so sweet my eyes filled with water.

From "Finding Langston" by Lesa Cline-Ransome