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- noun A style of
hair in which the hair isinterweaved into thinlocks . - noun Plural form of
braid . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
braid .
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Examples
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Bo was tall and beautiful with sparkling white teeth and golden hair that swung in braids when she ran.
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Two people from the party said the killer wore his hair in braids, as did the original police report.
After 15 years in prison, man cleared Dan Morse 2010
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Her head of braids is tied back into a thick queue de cheval.
French Word-A-Day: 2009
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In lighter news, my neighbor's teenage girls did my hair the other day in braids (och!!) that I will try to post a photo of today.
Happy New Year from Cameroon Anna 2009
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In lighter news, my neighbor's teenage girls did my hair the other day in braids (och!!) that I will try to post a photo of today.
Archive 2009-01-01 Anna 2009
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Young girls, middle teens probably, some in braids, all in the dress of the period, by the side of a road brandishing small swastika pennants and cheering.
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Like props, little girls in braids and bows and little boys in shorts below their knees arrayed themselves on the steps in front of the locked doors.
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Then we'd slip into the Kuskokwim lowlands, where the river carves channels through square-mile gravel bars and unravels in braids until it flows into the larger Aniak.
Whitewater, Survival, and the Best Salmon Fishing in Alaska 2007
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Like props, little girls in braids and bows and little boys in shorts below their knees arrayed themselves on the steps in front of the locked doors.
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The barberâs shop; finally I see how black hair is neatly and patiently done in braids, dreads, colors ....
Boing Boing: September 4, 2005 - September 10, 2005 Archives 2005
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