Meaning

noun a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair

noun trimming used to decorate clothes or curtains

verb make by braiding or interlacing

originFrom Middle English braiden, breided, bræiden, from Old English breġdan (“to move quickly, pull, shake, swing, throw (wrestling), draw (sword), drag; bend, weave, braid, knit, join together; change color, 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…

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0