She laced tightly her bodice to show off her waist, and combed out and plaited her long tresses to make them crisp and wavy.
The walls were ornamented with choice shells in patterns, and the floor covered with a matting of plaited seaweed.
Her head was thrown back, motionless, ecstatic under Maggie's flickering fingers as they plaited her thin wisps of hair.
In Holy Week women are to be seen all over the old town selling plaited palm branches of a pale straw-color, some of which are bedecked with little bows of ribbon or stars of tinsel, used in the ceremonies of Palm Sunday.
The ancient housewife could not do without starch for her "ruffs and cuffs and fardingales," and for her lord's elaborately plaited ruffles.
Then he rose and took up the strongly plaited quirt.
He raised theplaited quirt, and the hotel-keeper flung himself in front of Nevis.
Next she plaited fishing lines from grass-tree fibre, and fashioned hooks from the bones of slaughtered birds and animals, to catch the fish which abounded near the rocks.
The slings were of plaited fibre, the stones being rounded like an egg.
The woven wire follows the technique or simulates the character of a plaited straw basket, just as Wedgwood ware baskets and dishes simulated the plaited and interlaced rush baskets.
Then she plucked rushes and plaited a soft cord of them, which she fastened to the collar.
And the soldiers plaited a crown of thorns and put it on his head, and arrayed him in a purple garment; and they came unto him, and said: Hail, King of the Jews!
And they plaited a crown of thorns and put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand; and they kneeled down before him and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!
I think she found it hard to get used to coats that had no hooks or buttons but were fastened with plaited leather strings, and she thought her charges looked rather outre.
The head is covered by a folded handkerchief, and the hair hangs loose or plaited down the back.
In another place we saw a canoe in process of construction, ingeniously made of boards, sewed together with plaited palm-leaves.
And Francois laid his hand with a hypocritical look on his dazzlingly white closely-plaited shirt-front with its large gold studs.
A rawhide whipplaited with two thongs of buffalo hide T.
Its slender naked rootstock produces each year a solid corm, filled with exceedingly glutinous matter, which sends up later a single large oval evergreen plaited leaf.
They sometimes wear Turbands, but their Chief Headdress is what they call Tomou, which is human Hair plaited scarce thicker than common thread.
Illustration--Black and White Plate: Ceylon: Nursery of Cacao Seedlings in Baskets of plaited Palm Leaf.
The cacao, you must understand, has to be planted at first in baskets of plaited cocoa-leaf.
Overhand firmly all around; finish the top with a plaited ribbon and a little bow and loop to hang it by, and the bottom with a bullion fringe of the color of the ribbon.
Sew the two ends together to form a circle, lay the silver paper smoothly over it, stitch down, and trim both edges with plaited satin ribbon three-quarters of an inch wide.
Slip the pieces between the double rods of the frame, sew over and over, and finish with a plaited satin ribbon all round, adding a neat little loop and bow to lift the lid.
But in compliance with custom, his hair was dressed with the fashionable love-locks, plaited and adorned with ribands, and falling foppishly over either ear.
Her hair, to her great sorrow, she could not make stay up on top of her head at all, and she was forced to leave it plaited down her back as of old.
You speak of the land beingplaited in and out," continued Miss Eliza, looking sternly over her glasses.
It tossed her skirts about her and blew the great rope of coppery red hair which ordinarily hung loosely plaited down her back so that it streamed straight out behind her just like a candle flame.
If the land was plaited in and out, I never would!
Graced with her clean white apron, her shapely head crowned by the glory of her simply plaited hair, she was a pleasing sight for any man to look upon.
He noted the high, white forehead, with its smoothly parted and plaited hair.
On one side of each is an opening which is closed by a double door of plaited cocoa-nut tree and pandanus-tree leaves.
He is enveloped in rye-stalks and green withes, and is furnished with a longplaited tail.
The two plaited a big screen of leaves and grasses.
Norris and Robert crawled cautiously into the bushes up to either side of the door, Robert armed with a strong cord, that Carlos plaited of long grasses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "plaited" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
