pigtails
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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
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
The drummer, Janet Weiss, played harder than pretty much anyone I’d ever seen, of any gender, and she sometimes wore pigtails.
From New York Times ● Jan. 19, 2024
Dressed up as Minnie Mouse, in red and white polka dot clothes and hair in pigtails, Bea takes to the paddock alongside her vaulting partner.
From BBC ● Dec. 8, 2023
Tonsures, pigtails, head completely shaved but for a single forelock, long sides drawn into a queue with a raffish short-cut roach in the middle—all of it was prideful and abhorrent to the Pilgrims.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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