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unplait

[ uhn-pleyt, -plat ]

verb (used with object)

  1. to alter from a plaited state; unbraid, as hair.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of unplait1

1325–75; Middle English unpleyten; un- 2, plait

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Example Sentences

The messengers told him their errand and he at once said, “O yes, I can help you,” and began to unplait his hair.

You could almost untie the knots of those girdles, unplait almost the long braided tresses of those mystic queens.

He wildly desired to unplait that thick soft hair and bury his face in it—he longed to hold her to his heart.

Joanna is coming, too, only she had first some flax to unplait.

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