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thin coloured rope that is used to decorate furniture and military uniforms (装饰家具和军装的)彩色穗带 - (especially North American English) (British English usually plait)[countable]
a long piece of something, especially hair, that is divided into three parts and twisted together 辫状物;发辫;辫子 Topics Appearancec2
Word OriginOld English bregdan ‘make a sudden movement’, also ‘interweave’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch breien (verb).