Search for crossword answers and clues
Hair in a twist
Answer for the clue "Hair in a twist ", 5 letters:
braid
Alternative clues for the word braid
Word definitions for braid in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair [syn: plait , tress , twist ] trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains [syn: gold braid , braiding ] v. make by braiding or interlacing; "lace a tablecloth" [syn: lace , plait ] decorate with braids ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE gold ▪ The sun, brilliant after the early fog, glinted on gold braid and polished shakos. ▪ For more than two years Fields had been basically one of the boys, with gold braid . ▪ I don't carry a lot of weight ...
Usage examples of braid.
Jordan decided we really needed a SR anthology and he wanted to make it into a braided novel.
The ways of Barding are many, but all are important in the life of this land, and all meet in singing, which braids together the different knowings into a wide and subtle music, the music of living.
Lady Fatima for the occasion, included a short blouse and pantaloons of emerald silk covered by a barracan of softest mint green edged with gold braiding.
The riders wore horn-mail over dun uniforms, slit to mid-spine, braided manes flying.
Now, to me, none of the troopers looked clean, and they oiled their braided manes with a pungent oil.
Most had manes braided down the spine but pulled up into a cascading horsetail on the crown of the head.
It was more noticeable in Shiriya-Shenin: their slit robes, curved pairs of blades and manes braided with ceramic beads, their habit of going barefoot on tessellated stone floors.
While the Gel daThae men wore their hair in braided manes, the women shaved every bit of theirs.
And ten-year-old Marga with those braids and that face that rose like a fat full moon, what gave her the right to look upon Oskar as a dummy to be dressed, combed, brushed, adjusted, and lectured at by the hour?
While Merlion and Embeth had both dressed their hair on top of their heads, Faraday had left hers in the long braid, wispy tendrils brushing her cheeks.
They wear their Northernness like a flag, flaunt their braided hair and their barbaric customs, shout out incomprehensible Northern slogans in City Sessions.
She tucked her single braid down under her overfur and pulled up the hood.
His braided and pinked peascod doublet set off his slender waist to advantage, but gave him a slightly effeminate look.
Cathcart watched the boy put down the book and stand, candle-glow irradiating like a phasm from the smooth coils of his braid.
You saw it all the time here, every minute of the day, checking out the competition: What was a girl wearing, how many piercings, real gold or plate, too much glitter, were her braids phat or coming loose, was she draped or wearing a simple hoop or two, are those real extensions or fake?