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Recent Examples of plait
Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
One of my black dresses in silk or cotton, knee socks, Simone Rocha pearly Crocs, a cashmere jumper, and a ponytail or two plaits.
—airmail.news, 28 Sep. 2024
Tom Stubbs, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024
Among the haunting remnants, one image has stayed with me—a child's lock of hair, neatly plaited and tied with a small red ribbon, matted with mud.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Noun
The series follows nine-year-old Pippi, a plucky girl with a pair of quirky plaits who moves to a Swedish village following the death of her parents.
—Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
One of my black dresses in silk or cotton, knee socks, Simone Rocha pearly Crocs, a cashmere jumper, and a ponytail or two plaits.
—airmail.news, 28 Sep. 2024
Verb
This fall, Tom Ford proposed a louche take on evening style, using black, slim-plaited, or delicately sequined scarves whose long tassels provocatively dangle at the hips.
—Tom Stubbs, Robb Report, 30 Nov. 2024
Among the haunting remnants, one image has stayed with me—a child's lock of hair, neatly plaited and tied with a small red ribbon, matted with mud.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 24 Jan. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for plait
braid
Noun
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Ortega did not walk the red carpet in Wednesday's trademark pigtail braids, but instead wore her hair parted to the side and styled in soft curls at the ends, with her bangs shaped and sculpted into a perfect twirly little swoop atop her forehead.—
Kara Nesvig,
Allure,
2 June 2025
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Larry Magid,
Mercury News,
29 May 2025
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“Plait.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/plait. Accessed 13 Jun. 2025.
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