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braided

British  
/ ˈbreɪdɪd /

adjective

  1. (of a river or stream) flowing in several shallow interconnected channels separated by banks of deposited material

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During a strike, she said, she would carefully explain to her daughter — a 7-year-old with long, braided hair and a Labubu plush toy swinging from her red backpack — what the teachers were demanding.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

She’s also become a pop-cultural style icon, revered for the way she wore Mexican folk dress and braided her hair.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 21, 2025

Hemingway wrote of long braided strands of garlic around the necks of San Fermín revelers.

From Salon • Nov. 8, 2025

She said the university introduced the new braided careers programme after noticing that it was struggling to recruit to the course, and that the access to the subject in schools was declining.

From BBC • Sep. 4, 2025

His clothes were finely made and colorful, his jerkin and leggings stitched in braided sinew dyed red, and edged in some kind of bird skin stained green.

From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver