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Braid   /breɪd/   Listen
noun
Braid  n.  
1.
A plait, band, or narrow fabric formed by intertwining or weaving together different strands. "A braid of hair composed of two different colors twined together."
2.
A narrow fabric, as of wool, silk, or linen, used for binding, trimming, or ornamenting dresses, etc.


Braid  n.  
1.
A quick motion; a start. (Obs.)
2.
A fancy; freak; caprice. (Obs.)


verb
Braid  v. t.  (past & past part. braided; pres. part. braiding)  
1.
To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. "Braid your locks with rosy twine."
2.
To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.
3.
To reproach. (Obs.) See Upbraid.


Braid  v. i.  To start; to awake. (Obs.)


adjective
Braid  adj.  Deceitful. (Obs.) "Since Frenchmen are so braid, Marry that will, I live and die a maid."





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"Braid" Quotes from Famous Books



... brass-headed tacks, right after breakfast, one cool morning. Then Katty washed up the dark floor-margin, and the table had its crimson-striped cloth on, and mother brought down the brown stuff for the new sofa-cover, and the great bunch of crimson braid to bind that with, and we drew up our camp-chairs and crickets, and got ready to be busy and jolly, and to have a brand-new piece ...
— We Girls: A Home Story • Mrs. A. D. T. Whitney
... she said, imploringly, "my old dress is quite tidy. I put new braid round it yesterday, and I would so much rather you got a new great-coat. Even Aunt Madge noticed that your ...
— Doctor Luttrell's First Patient • Rosa Nouchette Carey
... chintz and a striped jacconet short-gown. Her hair was of the kind which always lies like satin; but, nevertheless, girls never think their toilette complete unless the smoothest hair has been shaken down and rearranged. A few moments, however, served to braid its shining folds and dispose them in their simple knot on the back of the head; and having given a final stroke to each side with her little dimpled hands, she sat down a moment at the window, thoughtfully watching where the afternoon sun was creeping through ...
— The Atlantic Monthly , Volume 2, No. 14, December 1858 • Various
... observed a girl on a galloping horse until she was almost upon them. She sat her sturdy, spirited pony like a cowboy. She was about sixteen, with a suggestion of boyishness in her appearance. Her brown hair, worn in a single braid, was bleached to a lighter shade on top, as if she rode always with bared head. Her eyes were gray, in curious contrast to a tawny skin. She was slight to scrawniness, and, one might have thought, insufficiently clad for ...
— 'Me-Smith' • Caroline Lockhart
... everything. Neither of us have even a brush and comb, or a cake of soap, or enough hairpins to hold up our hair. I'm going to take Marjory's away from her and let her braid her hair down her back. You can imagine how dreadful ...
— Active Service • Stephen Crane


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