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Replait

Replait \Re*plait"\ (r?-pl?t"), v. t. To plait or fold again; to fold, as one part over another, again and again.

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replait

vb. 1 (context transitive English) To plait#Verb again. 2 (context transitive English) To interweave.

Usage examples of "replait".

No coat, hair in a French braid so tidy that either the wind had stopped or she had taken the time to replait it after arriving.

I thanked her absently, busily trying to arrange my mussed hair without having to replait the waist-length locks.

Mildyth brush and replait her long hair, then put the head-rail on properly.

Her long, thin, practiced fingers rapidly unplaited, replaited, and tied up her plait.

In the end she replaited it and arranged the thick braids in a coronet on top with long tendrils, curled with an iron, hanging down to her neck.

Bren complained, and replaited the last few turns, which, with her movement, had escaped the half-tied ribbon and his unskilled fingers.

She seemed to have herself tolerably well in hand, but her eyes were restless and her fingers plaited and replaited the folds of her dress.

Loyse put off her robe of ceremony, replaited her hair by touch, rather than with the aid of the mirror.

She had brushed and replaited her hair, and put her best gold circlet over her head-veil, and was conscious that she looked her best, although she did not consider herself anything of a beauty.

Nynaeve, balanced atop their loose-jointed stool, had long since completed brushing her waist-length hair and was nearly done replaiting her braid loosely for sleep.

Red ribbons tumbled about it, plaiting and replaiting in the wind that blew through from the other side.

When she had thrown off her dress and put on a dressing jacket, she sat down with her foot under her on the bed that had been made up on the floor, jerked her thin and rather short plait of hair to the front, and began replaiting it.

And though on many a morn, she combed out her lovely hair and replaited it with her ropes of tiny pearls, she never complained of our lot, and wore the cast-off tunics and cloaks of the men we slew as I did.

Her long, thin, practiced fingers rapidly unplaited, replaited, and tied up her plait.