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  • noun Plural form of pigtail.
  • noun hairstyle similar to plaits

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Examples

  • - She sometimes lets me put her hair in pigtails and sometimes she even keeps them in.

    22 months (and 4 days) « Mad Dave and Lil 2009

  • MUNICH — Surrounded by the bratwurst stands and beer wagons of Oktoberfest, Alexandra Coroian, a 24-year-old Romanian in pigtails, pulls at the ruffle of her short scarlet dirndl, exposing a black lace petticoat underneath.

    At Oktoberfest, a Controversy Brews Over Racy Designer Dirndls Patrick McGroarty 2010

  • - She sometimes lets me put her hair in pigtails and sometimes she even keeps them in.

    2009 May « Mad Dave and Lil 2009

  • She came from South Africa, wore her hair in pigtails, and dressed oddly.

    Wonderfully Strange arhyalon 2008

  • Of late, it had gotten ornery -- I had reached the point where it was only tolerable when it was in pigtails, because a ponytail or bun gave me a headache and leaving it loose meant constantly coping with veils of hair going everywhere and getting in everything.

    with the thoughts you'd be thinkin' you could be another Lincoln jmeadows 2008

  • XD Visited the tailgating area for a short time; we saw Jessica's brother and then saw a girl in pigtails drinking straight from a handle of tequila.

    To quote a shirt I saw today, "Don't blink, Just drink." tragic_elegance 2007

  • They pin pigtails on the little girls and paint moustaches on the little boys.

    Walking with the kids 2005

  • One of the children, his daughter, in pigtails, will say: "But that's my balloon, Dad."

    Archive 2004-12-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Five minutes from now, the little girl in pigtails will release each balloon she has in her hands as she enters a tan minivan.

    Archive 2004-12-01 Dean Francis Alfar 2004

  • Five minutes from now, the little girl in pigtails will release each balloon she has in her hands as she enters a tan minivan.

    vignette: green balloon Dean Francis Alfar 2004

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