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Following up on her “Bartok Ballet” of last year, Ms. Tanowitz will braid her inventive footwork and crisp musicality in a new work, premiering April 24 and set to Ted Hearne’s “Law of Mosaics.”

From New York Times • Feb. 26, 2020

It will do; he will give them all a gold kaireen apiece, and they will braid them in their girls' hair.'

From Tancred Or, The New Crusade by Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield

I'll shape like theirs my simple dress, And bind like them each jetty tress,     A sight to please thee well: And for my dusky brow will braid A bonnet like an English maid.

From Poems by Bryant, William Cullen

I will braid it for you every morning, if you will p. 39but be pursuaded to join us. 

From The Romany Rye a sequel to "Lavengro" by Watts-Dunton, Theodore

"I have—I will pose for you as long as you wish," she cried penitently, "and I will braid my hair on wire, and then it will stand out better."

From Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley by Maniates, Belle Kanaris