pigtails

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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

The morning after her operation, Alexandra, her hair in pigtails, shuffled slowly around her hospital room.

From New York Times • Oct. 31, 2023

By early morning Oksana is up, combing Anna's hair and putting it into pigtails.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2023

She moved along just under my elbow, her shiny tight pigtails, and then the last house played out and the road curved out of sight beyond a wall, following the river.

From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner