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

The male representative of this species proudly sports a pork pie straw hat, half Panama and half boater, so obviously transatlantic that every plait in it gives forth a twang.

From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023

She stood about four and a half feet tall and liked to keep her hair shoulder length, in a plait, her grandfather said.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2019

And indeed, dear reader, it was not a tail, but the woven plait sprouting from the little human’s head.

From "The Undead Fox of Deadwood Forest" by Aubrey Hartman

“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

Cameron remained dominant on the front foot and Taylor's hair began to fall out of her plaits as she tried her best to time power counters.

From BBC ● May 20, 2023

And under questioning by Veronice Holt, Mayfield’s attorney, McDaniel acknowledged that Mayfield was never thinly built with dreadlocks or plaits — which is how a witness had described one of the shooters.

From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2022

They specified that the ban on discrimination includes natural Afro hairstyles, braids, cornrows, plaits and head coverings.

From New York Times ● Oct. 27, 2022

She came over to me, pinched the ends of a few of my plaits, then patted my edges as if she was touching up my baby hair.

From "Patina" by Jason Reynolds

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

She took her time unlocking the door and let the rain run over her plaited hair and past her eyes and down her cheeks.

From "Half of a Yellow Sun" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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

John Frieda Frizz Ease Clearly Defined Gel was Aspiras' go-to while plaiting the two side braids, which he secured with clear elastics.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 29, 2018

She would keep off plaiting it until next week.

From "Purple Hibiscus" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie