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unplait

American  
[uhn-pleyt, -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

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)

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.

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

From The Heavenly Twins by Grand, Madame Sarah

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