unplait
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of unplait
Example Sentences
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Trying to unplait the bread would just result in a huge mess.
From Anya and the Nightingale by Sofiya Pasternack
Joanna is coming, too, only she had first some flax to unplait.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Theo. Hampe
Mohammed’s wife, a girl of eighteen or so, wanted to go home on Bairam day for her mother to wash her head and unplait her hair.
From Letters from Egypt by Janet Ross
When everything was arranged, Connie went into a little room to put on once again her dark-blue dress, and to unplait her thick hair and allow it to fall over her shoulders.
From Sue, A Little Heroine by L. T. Meade
"No, my dear child," said she, smoothing my hair, which I'd begun to unplait.
From The Heather-Moon by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
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