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plaiting [′plād·iŋ] (geology) A texture in some schists that results from the intersection of relict bedding planes with well-developed cleavage planes. Also known as gaufrage. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| They sat about the house most of the day as if it were Sunday; greasing their boots, mending their suspenders, plaiting whiplashes. A girl of fifteen, perhaps, was plaiting pandanus-leaf to make a hat, and an old woman was sitting on her haunches smoking a pipe. Three others, however, were quarrelling barbarously away forward; and one big fellow, half naked, with herculean shoulders, was hanging limply over a winch; another, sitting on the deck, his knees up and his head drooping sideways in a girlish attitude, was plaiting his pigtail with infinite languor depicted in his whole person and in the very movement of his fingers. |
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