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
"I won't have it like that!" declared Zoie, and she shook herself free from Aggie's unwelcome attentions and proceeded to unplait the hateful pigtail.
From Baby Mine by Mayo, Margaret
Joanna is coming, too, only she had first some flax to unplait.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Hampe, Theo.
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 Ross, Janet
"No, my dear child," said she, smoothing my hair, which I'd begun to unplait.
From The Heather-Moon by Williamson, A. M. (Alice Muriel)
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