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unplait

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[uhn-playt, -plat] / ʌnˈpleɪt, -ˈplæt /

verb (used with object)

  1. to alter from a plaited state; unbraid, as hair.


Etymology

Origin of unplait

1325–75; Middle English unpleyten; see un- 2, plait


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

Her heart gave a throb of satisfaction and she began to unplait her manifold small braids: “I shall not require to go to bed,” she murmured.

From An Orkney Maid by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr

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

Her hair was very wet, and she began deliberately to take it down and unplait it.

From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand

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

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