US usually braid [verb] - to join three or more lengths of (string-like material) by putting them over each other in a special pattern. Long hair is often plaited.She plaited the horse's tail. [T]My grandfather taught me to plait. [I]He was wearing a plaited leather bracelet/a plaited tie/a plaited belt.
PLAIT
Meaning of PLAIT in English
Cambridge English vocab. Кембриджский английский словарь. 2012