British EnglishBrETIE to twist three long pieces of hair or rope over and under each other to make one long piece 把…编成辫[绳]SYN American English braid
She plaited her hair hurriedly.
她匆匆地把头发编成辫子。
a plaited leather belt
编成辫状的皮带
Examples from the Corpus
plait• Her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head, but there was no mistaking her for Han.• Her older sisters plaited and decorated her hair, encouraging an already overdeveloped vanity.• I washed and combed and plaited my hair and rubbed my clogs, then I went round and knocked on the door.• Perhaps I would like them to plait my hair?• Some of them had plaitedscraps of cloth in their long black hair and all worebeads around their necks.• You will need to plait your horse's mane and pull or plait his tail.
plait• She chewed at the spiky end of a plait and kicked at a kitchen chair-leg.• A woman with a blondplait was seen getting out of a car with a man near the canal upstream of Sharpness.• She has tied her hair in one droopingplait.• The rope of her orange-grey plaittumbled on to her shoulder.• Melanie started wearing her hair in stiffplaits, in the manner of a squaw.• Lynn had a round face with freckles and browneyes and she wore her fair hair in a thickplait.• She was about eleven, with long red hair in two plaits.
in plaits• Her hair was no longer confinedin plaits, but hung down her back to the base of her spine.• She wore her dark hair in plaits about her head.• Sarah had her hair in plaits, and Mouse had his in a ponytail.
Originplait
(1400-1500)Old Frenchpleit, from Latinplictus, past participle of plicare“to fold”