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noun
- A weave of three of more strands of fibers, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration.
Translations: - German: Zopf
- Spanish: trenza
verb (braids, braiding, braided, braided or obsolete browden)
- (obsolete) (transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
- (archaic) (intransitive) To start into motion.
- Late C14: For verray wo out of his wit he breyde. " Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Franklin's Tale", Canterbury Tales
- (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibers, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
Translations: - Spanish: trenzar
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Etymology: Old English bregdan, breÄdan, from Germanic - bregdan. Cognate with Dutch breien.
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