Plait

A plait is a knot usually tied from multiple lines and exhibiting a repeating pattern, often a braid and often referring to hair. Plait is also a verb used for the act of creating a plait.

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For example:

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:...Bess, the landlord's daughter, plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.

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:"The Highwayman", Alfred Noyes

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Knot: A knot is a method for fastening or securing linear material such as rope by tying or interweaving. It may consist of a length of one or more segments of rope, cord, webbing, twine, string, strap or even chain interwoven so as to create in the line the ability to bind to itself or to some other obj...

Braid: To braid is to interweave or twine three or more separate strands of one or more materials in a diagonally overlapping pattern. The word is used in many contexts:...

Hair: :Hair is also a musical: see Hair (musical) and Hair (movie)...