Definitions for braids

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braids braid

Spelling: [breyd]

IPA: /breɪd/

Braids is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 158 anagrams from letters in braids (abdirs).

Definitions for braids

noun

1. a braided length or plait, especially of hair.
2. a hair style formed by interweaving three or more strands of hair.
3. a narrow, ropelike band formed by plaiting or weaving together several strands of silk, cotton, or other material, used as trimming for garments, drapery, etc.
4. a band, ribbon, etc., for binding or confining the hair.

verb (used with object)

1. to weave together strips or strands of; plait:
2. to form by such weaving:
3. to bind or confine (the hair) with a band, ribbon, etc.
4. to trim with braid, as a garment.

Origin of braids

before 950; Middle English braiden, breiden (v.), Old English bregdan to move quickly, move to and fro, weave; cognate with Old Norse bregtha, Dutch breien

Examples for braids

The girls in kimonas and with their hair in braids, sat in their sitting-room.

It means that my braids are up to stay, so hereafter I'm a real woman.

And then she recalled Katy's voice saying: "braids round your head."

Inside, sporting a set of braids that would make Katniss Everdeen green with jealousy, is the self-anointed “queen bee,” Lorde.

Matched, in fact, the description of hundreds of young black men in Brooklyn: braids, dark baseball cap, saggy jeans.

“He actually really did creep me out—as the character—with the braids and the way he talked,” she says.

For a summer cut her mother would lop off the braids, leaving her with a chic bob for the warmer months.

Nancy, pull your braids around to the front so they can see your blond hair.

Water dripped from the fringe of hair across her forehead and poured from her braids.

The only racism Alicia Keys is likely to encounter in the territories would be some fool trying to touch her braids.