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Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
QUIBBLES & BITS 2006
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Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair
jaxraven Diary Entry jaxraven 2004
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Plaiting of straw braid is a separate industry, the domestic hat manufacturers being dependent upon foreign sources for their supply of braids.
Men's Sewed Straw Hats Report of the United Stated Tariff Commission to the President of the United States (1926) United States Tariff Commission
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But alas it would not last long, for the Leaves wither'd and dropt away; so that he was forc'd to get more, which he doubled and put together as well as he could, Plaiting the Leaves one upon another, which made it a little more durable, but not much.
The Improvement of Human Reason Exhibited in the Life of Hai Ebn Yokdhan Ibn Tufail
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_Plaiting straw_, used in the manufacture of hats and bonnets, is grown extensively in northern Italy and in Belgium.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Plaiting straw is also exported from China and Japan.
Commercial Geography A Book for High Schools, Commercial Courses, and Business Colleges 1895
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Plaiting as it were one crown of many colours and every sort of flowers, they offered it to God.
Marius the Epicurean — Volume 2 Walter Pater 1866
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Plaiting coarse straw or bulrushes is an employment that can be followed both by old people and young children; and you will find covers made of straw plaited into bands, and then sown together, of great service in protecting your half-hardy plants during frosty weather.
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally Jane 1845
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Plaiting a dark red love-knot into her long black hair.
British Blogs 2008
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-From "Song of Whip-Plaiting", by Constance Lindsay Skinner
Archive 2010-04-01 Fresca 2010
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