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Another young migrant, 18-year-old Matar Top, who has braided hair, arrived from Senegal three years ago with similar hopes of sending money home.

From Barron's • Jun. 3, 2026

It has braided cousins across Europe: fonott kalacs in Hungary, chałka in Poland, vanocka in the Czech Republic.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2022

Jennifer Beady, who has braided Shields’s hair for the past 2½ years, had flown in from Flint for the job.

From Washington Post • Jan. 15, 2020

“It shows the person has braided legs and that could be a birthing scene,” she said.

From Washington Times • May 24, 2019

One maiden defies the prohibition: Janet has kilted her green kirtle A little aboon her knee, And she has braided her yellow hair A little aboon her bree.

From The Romantic Scottish Ballads: Their Epoch and Authorship by Chambers, Robert W. (Robert William)