unbraid

Then he sat up and began deliberately to unbraid her hair, while she submitted laughing.

"It is time you were in bed," said Grace, turning up the lamp, and beginning to unbraid her hair.

Judith was sitting before her dressing-table, and had already begun to unbraid her long, rich hair.

This is a remnant of ancient Russian usage, when the greatest outrage that could be committed on a woman was to unbraid her hair.

On the wedding-day the bridemaids unbraid the ladys hair, and she receives her husband with flowing locks.