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

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

"That woman with the tightly curled blond plait," you may be thinking to yourself.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2019

She stood about four and a half feet tall and liked to keep her hair shoulder length, in a plait, her grandfather said.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2019

And indeed, dear reader, it was not a tail, but the woven plait sprouting from the little human’s head.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman