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
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
"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
Her hair was very wet, and she began deliberately to take it down and unplait it.
From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand
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
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