I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
French plait
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
hair
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I washed and combed and plaited my hair and rubbed my clogs, then I went round and knocked on the door.
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Her older sisters plaited and decorated her hair , encouraging an already overdeveloped vanity.
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Perhaps I would like them to plait my hair ?
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Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods.
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Detective Constable Julie Bignall was reported for allowing a prisoner to plait her hair .
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I plaited my own hair and then I straightened my ink-stained pinafore and we were ready to go.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head, but there was no mistaking her for Han.
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Her older sisters plaited and decorated her hair, encouraging an already overdeveloped vanity.
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I washed and combed and plaited my hair and rubbed my clogs, then I went round and knocked on the door.
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Perhaps I would like them to plait my hair?
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Some of them had plaited scraps of cloth in their long black hair and all wore beads around their necks.
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You will need to plait your horse's mane and pull or plait his tail.
II. noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A woman with a blond plait was seen getting out of a car with a man near the canal upstream of Sharpness.
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Lynn had a round face with freckles and brown eyes and she wore her fair hair in a thick plait .
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Melanie started wearing her hair in stiff plaits, in the manner of a squaw.
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She chewed at the spiky end of a plait and kicked at a kitchen chair-leg.
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She has tied her hair in one drooping plait .
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She was about eleven, with long red hair in two plaits.
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The rope of her orange-grey plait tumbled on to her shoulder.