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

Assembling a loaf of challah, the briochelike Jewish bread coated with a soft brown egg wash and braided in a classic plait, is another undertaking entirely.

From New York Times ● Dec. 1, 2021

I will, however, send a JRPMP: Je réponds parce-qu’il ME plait — “because it pleases me.”

From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2017

She ought to have bright bows to set off the two silky curls at the end of each plait.

From "Lyddie" by Katherine Paterson

"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

“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

Her mother then plaits her thick hair into two Dutch braids that fit under her helmet for the show ring.

From New York Times ● Mar. 3, 2023

We don't bother with complicated eight-strand plaits or intricate rounds, and instead opt for a classic three-strand braid.

From Salon ● Mar. 13, 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

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

From Salon ● Oct. 14, 2023

Her mother Julia Tiplady said the after-school club manager was loved by all who attended it, “especially the girls with long hair, as they would go home with different plaited hair every day”.

From BBC ● Jun. 17, 2021

I let my hair go back, plaited it up, and settled down to just being ugly.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

With those scraps, she made a handful of purses and small pouches using techniques including plaiting, macramé and sashiko, a form of Japanese embroidery.

From New York Times ● Dec. 19, 2022

“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

All morning we sat out on the bench beside the door, plaiting each others’ hair in rows and loops, receiving the compliments of passersby and the bunch of admiring small children who gathered around us.

From "Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti" by Frances Temple