pigtail
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Mitchell sat in the centre, wearing a pink floral silk shirt, with her hair in pigtail braids under a purple beret, and carrying a cane adorned with a small bear's head.
From BBC ● Jun. 12, 2023
Although the servers’ pigtail stories are far from scientific, experts aren’t surprised.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 21, 2022
Same size, different headers, but there’s a pigtail of breakout cables that do most of the same things.
From The Verge ● Jul. 29, 2021
His characters, who included herbalists and nightclub dancers, ate foods that were unknown to most Americans such as "medicine pigtail soup," "smoked duck feet steamed with pork" or "bitter melon."
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2016
They look like two little waterfalls of hair, with a pink and a blue ribbon tied in a teensy pigtail on top of their heads.
From "Before We Were Free" by Julia Alvarez
But "when I'm with Hyodol, I never get hurt", she said, holding the cuddly doll with pigtails and a pink gingham dress, provided by her local municipality.
From Barron's ● Jun. 11, 2026
As the camera zoomed in, Anastacia strutted down the staircase, her hair in pigtails under a candy striped bucket hat, her midriff exposed by a crop top, in accordance with 1990s pop regulations.
From BBC ● Sep. 8, 2025
Now he is raising a 4-year-old daughter with the help of Barnica’s younger brother; every weekend, they take her to see her grandmother, who knows how to braid her hair in pigtails.
From Salon ● Oct. 30, 2024
Class photos shared from over the years showed Shaylee in second grade, wearing pigtails, and years later, with highlights in her hair.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 25, 2024
“Want to tell me what happened?” she asked, tenderly squeezing the towel around one of my pigtails, then the other.
From "Root Magic" by Eden Royce
