A tress or plait of hair; = tress, n. 1 (English regional (south-western)). Obsolete (but cf. trace, v.3).

A plait of hair, ribbon, straw, etc. Also figurative: an interlinking of various conditions or elements (cf. also plight, v.2 3).

A plait or braid of the hair of the head, usually of a woman: cf. trace, n.3 1.

A plait or braid of hair.

Anything plaited, interwoven, or entwined; esp. A plait of human hair. In 19th cent. sometimes applied to the flat bands of hair, worn at one time…

A fold or pleat in drapery; †in quot. 1613, a plait of the hair (obsolete); (now) spec. a flattened fold (or one of several parallel folds) in a…

The rope by which the buoy is fastened to the anchor. †Also transferred (quot. 1546 used for a woman's pig-tail).

plural. The plaits, braids, or tresses of a woman's hair; in quot. 1594 with play on sense 1.

A plait, braid, or tress of hair. Cf. trammel, n.1 6.

A plait or braid of hair (natural or otherwise) worn round the forehead or temples. Obsolete.

A short, tapering length of cord, rope, hair, etc. A plait of hair; a pigtail. Obsolete. rare.

A plait of hair or cord; a tress of interwoven strands. Cf. plait, n. 1a.

plural. Braids, tresses: cf. trammel, n.1 6.

Probably: a complex, plaited hairstyle. Obsolete. rare.

A twist or plait of hair: see braid, n. 4b.

A long plait of hair worn hanging down at the back, from the head or from a wig; a pigtail. Now historical or archaic.

A plait or tail of hair.

A knot of hair; a pigtail; also short for tie-wig, n. ? Obsolete.

A long roll or plait of hair worn hanging down behind like a tail, from the head or from a wig; a pigtail. Also spelt queue, n.

A fold or plait of hair. Obsolete.

A Roman head-dress formed by plaiting the hair in a cone above the forehead, worn esp. by the Flamen and his wife.

A club-shaped knot or tail in which the hair was worn at the back; fashionable in the second half of the 18th cent. Hence club-pigtail, club-wig.

A thing, part, or appendage, resembling the tail of an animal in shape or position. A twisted or braided tress of hair; a queue, pig-tail.

= French roll, n. 2.

an elaborate plait of hair made from about thirteen strands.

= French braid, n. 2; cf. French pleat n. (c).

Usually horse's tail n. A woman's hairstyle in which the hair is arranged to resemble the shape of the tail of a horse; a ‘pony-tail’.

A girl resembling Gretchen; a German girl or woman. Also used attributively to denote typically German hairstyles, etc., as Gretchen braid, plait…

Applied absol. and attributively to a young unmarried Japanese ladies' formal hairstyle in which the hair is drawn into a queue and fastened at the…

A hairstyle in which the hair is gathered and fastened at the back of the head so that it hangs down like a pony's tail; a bunch of hair gathered…

Chiefly North American. A type of plait in the hair made by interweaving three relatively thin strands, typically starting near the crown, then…

Caribbean. In plural or (less commonly) singular: a style of braiding, worn predominantly by black people, in which the hair is plaited in narrow…

With plural agreement. A Rastafarian hairstyle in which the hair is allowed to grow without combing, and forms into matted ‘locks’ which hang down…

(a) a triple pleat near the top of a curtain (see quot. 2006); (b) = French roll, n. 2; (c) = French plait n.

attributive. Designating a garment, hairstyle, etc., considered suggestive of 18th-cent. fashions, esp. as represented in the 1963 film version of…

Usually in form cornrow. Frequently in plural. A style of braiding in which the hair is parted into rows and plaited tightly in geometric ribbing…

(plural) Dreadlocks.