braid
/bɹeɪd/ verb B2- To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
- To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
He/she/it braids · Past braided · Past participle braided · -ing form braiding
Verb forms
- Base form
- braid
- He/she/it
- braids
- Past
- braided
- Past participle
- braided
- -ing form
- braiding
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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:
She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair.
She twitched one of her long glossy braids over her thin shoulder and held it up before Matthew’s eyes.
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