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Middlemarch vocabulary
19 fashion terms (clothing, hair styles, fabrics, etc.)
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plait
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Definition:a braid (usually of hair)
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each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven;
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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moving his feet in their big, plaited shoes with firm, little steps, he climbed slowly up the steep place,
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Marfa Borisovna was about forty years of age. She wore a dressing-jacket, her feet were in slippers, her face painted, and her hair was in dozens of small plaits.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Idiot (1887)
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Hair notty but a lot of it, tied up on her head in a mass of plaits.
Alice Walker. The Color Purple, p.31 (1982)
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She often changed her coiffure; she did her hair a la Chinoise, in flowing curls, in plaited coils; she parted in on one side and rolled it under like a man's.
Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary
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Okonkwo was provoked to justifiable anger by his youngest wife, who went to plait her hair at her friend's house and did not return early enough to cook the afternoon meal.
Chinua Achebe. Things Fall Apart, p.29 (1958)
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they both stared at me, and I, with an obtrusive show of artlessness on my countenance, stared at them, and plaited the right leg of my trousers with my right hand.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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