BRAIDING • E-FREE TRANSLATION.COM • Definition of Braiding

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/brˈeɪdɪŋ/ Listen

noun

Braiding n.

The act of making or using braids.

Braids, collectively; trimming. "A gentleman enveloped in mustachios, whiskers, fur collars, and braiding."

verb

Braid v. t. (past & past part. braided; pres. part. braiding)

To weave, interlace, or entwine together, as three or more strands or threads; to form into a braid; to plait. "Braid your locks with rosy twine."

To mingle, or to bring to a uniformly soft consistence, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in some culinary operations.

To reproach. (Obs.) See Upbraid.

Braid v. i. To start; to awake. (Obs.)

See images of 'Braiding'

Etymology of 'Braiding'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Braiding" Quotes from Famous Books

... Braiding up her hair she sat gazing at herself in the mirror while her detached thoughts drifted almost anywhere—back to Spring Pond and the Hotel Greensleeve, back to her mother, to the child cross-legged ...

— Athalie • Robert W. Chambers

... Kenerley gave Patty one of those Oriental garments known as a Mandarin coat. It was of pale blue silk, heavy with elaborate embroidery and gold braiding, and ...

— Patty's Social Season • Carolyn Wells

... this sea of adornment, the housewife soon loses her bearings and decorates indiscriminately. Her old evening dresses serve to drape the mantelpieces, and she passes every spare hour embroidering, braiding, or fringing some material to adorn her rooms. At Christmas her friends contribute specimens of their handiwork to ...

— Worldly Ways and Byways • Eliot Gregory

... with much vivacity and looked very girlish in a close-fitting jacket of dark-blue cloth, trimmed round the high collar and the cuffs with black astrachan and fine black braiding. She kept one hand in her pocket in a graceful attitude, and with the other pointed out the various wall-hangings, the pictures, the furniture, asking his advice as to their ...

— The Child of Pleasure • Gabriele D'Annunzio

... of the fawn and the mallard. Soft hnpa [b] she made for his feet and leggins of velvety fawn-skin,— A blanket of beaver complete, and a hood of the hide of the otter. And oft at his feet on the mat, deftly braiding the flags and the rushes, Till the sun sought his teepee she sat, enchanted with what he related Of the white winged ships on the sea and the teepees far over the ocean, Of the love and the sweet charity of the Christ and the ...

— Legends of the Northwest • Hanford Lennox Gordon

More quotes...