BRAIDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does braided mean? 

• BRAIDED (adjective)
  The adjective BRAIDED has 1 sense:

1. woven by (or as if by) braiding

  Familiarity information: BRAIDED used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRAIDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Woven by (or as if by) braiding

Context example:

braided cordage

Similar:

woven (made or constructed by interlacing threads or strips of material or other elements into a whole)

 Context examples 

Cassini's sharp views revealed the bright features to be a system of braided canyons with bright walls.

(Cassini to Make Last Close Flyby of Saturn Moon Dione, NASA)

Miss Kate sketched and Frank talked to Beth, who was making little mats of braided rushes to serve as plates.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

I brushed Adele's hair and made her neat, and having ascertained that I was myself in my usual Quaker trim, where there was nothing to retouch—all being too close and plain, braided locks included, to admit of disarrangement—we descended, Adele wondering whether the petit coffre was at length come; for, owing to some mistake, its arrival had hitherto been delayed.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Rapunzel had magnificent long hair, fine as spun gold, and when she heard the voice of the enchantress she unfastened her braided tresses, wound them round one of the hooks of the window above, and then the hair fell twenty ells down, and the enchantress climbed up by it.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Her hair of a shining raven black, and curiously braided; her eyes were dark, but gentle, although animated; her features of a regular proportion, and her complexion wondrously fair, each cheek tinged with a lovely pink.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Her sisters braided up her pretty hair, and the only ornaments she wore were the lilies of the valley, which 'her John' liked best of all the flowers that grew.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

One, to be sure, had hair a shade darker than the other, and there was a difference in their style of wearing it; Mary's pale brown locks were parted and braided smooth: Diana's duskier tresses covered her neck with thick curls.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Madam, he pursued, I have a Master to serve whose kingdom is not of this world: my mission is to mortify in these girls the lusts of the flesh; to teach them to clothe themselves with shame-facedness and sobriety, not with braided hair and costly apparel; and each of the young persons before us has a string of hair twisted in plaits which vanity itself might have woven; these, I repeat, must be cut off; think of the time wasted, of—Mr. Brocklehurst was here interrupted: three other visitors, ladies, now entered the room.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Michaelis opened the drawer nearest his hand. There was nothing in it but a small expensive dog leash made of leather and braided silver. It was apparently new.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)