plait

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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

Sisters from El Salvador plait one another’s hair; men from Cameroon await an asylum hearing on the far side.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2019

Emma’d gone and put little ribbons on the end of each plait and had made the doll a blue dress and a red apron.

From "Elijah of Buxton" by Christopher Paul Curtis