What is "unplait"

Usage examples of "unplait".

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

Then with swift fingers he unplaited the long braid of hair that hung down his back, and taking a wooden comb from the drawer of the small, unsteady table, he began to comb out his hair.

She unplaited her hair, combed her fingers through the rippling, braid-crimped locks, and moved to regard her reflection in an oval looking glass affixed to the damask-covered wall.

Malay witnesses trembling from head to foot, and then the wretch from the cage was brought in looking hardly human, as, from under his shaggy, unshaven hair and unplaited pigtail which hung over his chest, he cast furtive, frightened glances at the array before him.

Rob Anybody was still hanging in the threads, but all his hair had come unplaited and stood out from his head in a great red ball.

She probably looked less like nobility than some wanton peasant with her hair unplaited and her naked toes peeping out from beneath the hem of her nightgown.

She unplaited her hair and brushed it the required one hundred times, blocking, blocking, blocking the memory of him brushing her hair.

In the dim candlelight, Gyda looked much younger with her unplaited hair hanging thick and straight down to the waist of her loose nightdress.

She brought her braid forward and unplaited it in order to hide how unsettled he made her.

While Lily unplaited her hair, she kept up a stream of cheerful chatter that washed over Victoria, only half-heard.

She adds six inches to her skirt, she unplaits her dangling braids and balls her hair on top of her head, she stops sleeping with her little sister and has a room to herself, and becomes in many ways a thundering expense.

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

Their shirts now formed the small shoulder-of-mutton sail that was to carry them across the ocean to Brazil, and although their faces and forearms were tanned beyond the reach of any sun their backs were not: those with pigtails had unplaited them and spread the long hair as some kind of a shield, but that was not much use against such a blaze and their backs were fiery red or purple, cracked and peeling or quite raw.

Rohan obliged her by unplaiting her long black braids and helping her finger-comb her hair.

She had finished unplaiting her hair and was brushing it out for the night when her father came in, looking very thoughtful.