braid
/bɹeɪd/ noun C2- A weave of three or more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
- A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together.
- A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
- Given two sets of n points on corresponding positions on two parallel lines, a braid is a unique set of crossings (over or under) between n strands that connect each point on one line to a point on the other line such that all points represent the terminus of one and only one strand and the traversal of any strand from a starting point to an ending point never moves further away from the from the ending point.
Plural braids
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She had a good chance to do so, for the said Gilbert Blythe was absorbed in stealthily pinning the long yellow braid of Ruby Gillis, who sat in front of him, to the back of her seat.
Before the gates were three young girls, dressed in handsome red uniforms trimmed with gold braid; and as Dorothy approached, one of them said to her:
The girl let the braid drop back with a sigh that seemed to come from her very toes and to exhale forth all the sorrows of the ages.
It was an old-fashioned oval, containing a braid of her mother’s hair, surrounded by a border of very fine amethysts.
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