plait

“A lot of the critical details in the plot were a mishmash of ideas that made no sense,” astronomer Phil Plait wrote at Slate.

For a moment I was as dumbfounded as the bridegroom who discovers a plait of hair on his brides dressing table.

They plait it very ingeniously in small tresses, frequently making more than a hundred.

He learnt to plait the foliage of faded crocuses, and pin them tidily to the ground with little wooden forks.

The Egyptian jewellers employed wire, both to lay down on a background and to plait or otherwise arrange jour.

As she began to twist it into one heavy plait, she walked to the window and stood looking out.