plait
noun /plæt/
/plæt/
(British English) (also braid especially in North American English)
- enlarge imagea long piece of something, especially hair, that is divided into three parts and twisted together
辫状物；发辫；辫子 - in plaits She wore her hair in plaits
她梳着辫子。 - in a plait Her hair was tied back in a long thick plait.
她的头发被扎成一根又长又粗的辫子。 - She fixed her hair into a thick plait.
她把头发扎成一根粗辫子。
词源late Middle English: from Old French pleit ‘a fold’, based on Latin plicare ‘to fold’. The word was formerly often pronounced like “plate”; since late Middle English there has been an alternative spelling plat, to which the current pronunciation corresponds. - in plaits She wore her hair in plaits
