What is "cornrow"

Usage examples of "cornrow".

However, instead of a wig she had opted to cornrow her mousy brown hair and top the whole ensemble with a Cubs cap.

The bright red beads, worked into his cornrow braids, looked like drops of crimson blood against the darkness of his skin and the black of the leather.

Her hair was jet black, cut in square bangs and woven into cornrows above her shoulders.

Her hair was freshly braided into cornrows with pearls and silver beads that jarred musically when she moved, and perfumed with myrrh for a resinous, woodsy smell.

Puffing, the officer caught a fistful of cornrows and jerked Star to her feet.

Fashioned of layered cartonnage, the mask bore her face, down to her pouting red lips, insolent dark eyes, and beaded cornrows, or rather, what her face had resembled in life, before the vizars shaved and smeared her.

Hating my job at that moment, I followed Gullet and Larabee through the cornrows and under the police tape to the edge of the wreckage.

A tall man in cornrows, gold chains, and overpriced designer sunglasses approached the door just as Woolsey started through it.

The cornrows jerked, and the body bucked wildly, catching the wrestling cop off guard.

His long silver hair had been braided in cornrows and knotted together, so that it hung over his right shoulder.

The prisoner wore his hair in greasy cornrows and slept on the floor with his back to Tom, and whenever he rearranged his limbs, which was often, he reminded Tom of a zoo animal, almost no trace left of pride in his movements, a languid choreography of animal defeat, a slack heavy lifer in his thirties or early forties with raised gray burn scars on his back and shoulders and silver psoriatic elbows.

A woman with cornrows and purple-framed glasses sat behind the desk, watching the monitors and talking on the phone.

Her hair was done up in orange cornrows -- a new style for her, but then she changed styles just about every other semester.

Her silver tiara and cornrowed hair were streaked with blood from a sliced ear.

Seized by her cornrowed hair so her tiara twisted, Star was held against the musty robes of two acolytes.