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

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

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2023

Wearing her hair in half-up pigtails and dressed in a jersey reading “Morocco” in Arabic, 5-year-old Aliae Benazzouza descended to the pitch to meet the players.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 9, 2023

Her lace-up combat boots debuted at Prada’s Addams-esque fall 2019 show on models with pigtails like Wednesday’s.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 21, 2023

They saw snakes, pigtails, branchy, forked things that looked like the letter Y, and they noticed squiggles like a small g, and bends like the letter U, and loopy 6s.

From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston