Obedient, the chambermaid brushed Alicen's hair until it shone, then tied it back with a braided band.

And the far side of the object was visible as a pale, braided band, remote across the blue-shifted sky.

Following her execution, he wears a braided band made from her hair around his head.

"Six," said Tatiana, the other Soyuz pilot, her dark hair drawn back and held with a braided band of green nylon webbing.

Sandwiched between was an intricately braided band of incandescently white horsehair, hairs carefully pulled from Gwena's tail, one at a time, so that each hair was perfect.

The spell of music and message she had sent out had been a delicate, braided band of silver and shadow.