plait

For the unaware, that classic acronym comes from the French phrase Répondez s'il vous plait.

"If someone thinks that is racism, then 'S'il vous plaît', they can call us racist, but this is not how I understand racism," he said.

"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?',"

Mila always had hers braided perfectly around the crown of her head, and today she was carefully sliding tiny flowers into the plait as she followed Verusha.

She had brilliant gold hair braided into a circle at her crown, with wisps catching on the cowl and poking wildly out of the plait.