braid
See also: bráid
English
A braid
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bɹeɪd/
Audio (US) (file) - Homophone: brayed
- Rhymes: -eɪd
Etymology 1
From Middle English braiden, breiden, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change colour, vary, be transformed; bind, knot; move, be pulled; flash”), from Proto-West Germanic *bregdan, from Proto-Germanic *bregdaną (“to flicker, flutter, jerk, tug, twitch, flinch, move, swing”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrēḱ-, *bʰrēǵ- (“to shine, shimmer”).
Cognate with Scots Scots brade, Scots braid (“to move quickly or suddenly”), Saterland Frisian braidje (“to knit”), West Frisian breidzje, Dutch breien (“to knit”), Low German breiden, German breiden, Bavarian bretten (“to move quickly, twitch”), Icelandic bregða (“to move quickly, jerk”), Faroese bregða (“to move quickly, react swiftly; to draw (sword)”) and Faroese bregda (“to plaid, braid, twist, twine”).
Alternative forms
- brayde, breyde, broid (obsolete)
Verb
braid (third-person singular simple present braids, present participle braiding, simple past and past participle braided)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make a sudden movement with, to jerk.
- (archaic, intransitive) To start into motion.
- (transitive) To weave together, intertwine (strands of fibres, ribbons, etc.); to arrange (hair) in braids.
- 1671, John Milton, “(please specify the page)”, in Paradise Regain’d. A Poem. In IV Books. To which is Added, Samson Agonistes, London: […] J. M[acock] for John Starkey […], OCLC 228732398:
- Braid your locks with rosy twine.
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- To mix, or make uniformly soft, by beating, rubbing, or straining, as in preparing food.
- (obsolete) To reproach; to upbraid.
- c. 1607–1608, William Shakeſpeare, The Late, And much admired Play, Called Pericles, Prince of Tyre. […], London: Imprinted at London for Henry Goſſon, […], published 1609, OCLC 78596089, [Act I, scene i]:
- Great King, / Few loue to heare the ſinnes they loue to act, / T'would brayde your ſelfe too neare for me to tell it […]
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Derived terms
- French-braid
- umbraid
- upbraid
Translations
to intertwine
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to mix by beating, rubbing etc.
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Noun
braid (plural braids)
- (obsolete) A sudden movement; a jerk, a wrench. [11th–17th c.]
- 1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “Capitulum ii”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book XII, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485, OCLC 71490786; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889, OCLC 890162034:
- And than in a brayde Sir Launcelot brake hys chaynes of hys legges and of hys armys (and in the brakynge he hurte hys hondys sore) […].
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- 1561, Thomas Sackville, Ferrex and Porrex, Act IV, scene ii, lines 1274–7:
- He fixt vpon my face, which to my death / Will neuer part fro me, when with a braide / A deepe fet sigh he gaue, and therewithall / Clasping his handes, to heauen he cast his sight.
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- A weave of three or more strands of fibres, ribbons, cords or hair often for decoration. [from 16th c.]
- 2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations (page 154)
- The physician should evaluate for a history of tight ponytails, buns, chignons, braids, twists, weaves, cornrows, dreadlocks, sisterlocks, and hair wefts in addition to the usage of religious hair coverings.
- 2021, Becky S. Li, Howard I. Maibach, Ethnic Skin and Hair and Other Cultural Considerations (page 154)
- A stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires twisted together
- A tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal placed around a central cable for shielding against electromagnetic interference.
- (obsolete) A caprice or outburst of passion or anger.
- 1540, Juan Luis Vives, chapter 2, in Richard Hyrde, transl., Instruction of a Christian Woman:
- Let the maide learne none uncleanly words, or wanton, or uncomely gesture and moving of the body, no not so much as when she is yet ignorant what shee doth, and innocent; for shee shall doe the same, when shee is growne bigger and of more discretion, […] And oftentimes such braides come uppon them against their will.
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Derived terms
- braid group
- braid statistics
- French braid
Translations
sudden movement
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weave of three or more strands
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hairstyle
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stranded wire composed of a number of smaller wires
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tubular sheath made of braided strands of metal
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Further reading
- braid in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
- braid in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911
Braids on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
Adjective
braid (comparative more braid, superlative most braid)
- (obsolete) Deceitful.
- c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act IV, scene ii]:
- Since Frenchmen are so braid, / Marry that will, I live and die a maid.
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Anagrams
- Baird, Bardi, bidar, rabid
Gothic
Romanization
braid
- Romanization of 𐌱𐍂𐌰𐌹𐌳
Irish
Noun
braid f
- (archaic, dialectal) dative singular of brad
Mutation
| Irish mutation | ||
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| Radical | Lenition | Eclipsis |
| braid | bhraid | mbraid |
| Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every possible mutated form of every word actually occurs. | ||
Middle English
Noun
braid
- Alternative form of breid