Plait
[plæt] or [plet,plæt]
Definition
(n.) A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait.
(n.) A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
(v. t.) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
(v. t.) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
Typed by Erica
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Fold, doubling, double, PLICATURE, gather.
v. a. [1]. Fold, double.[2]. Braid, plat, weave, mat.
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Definition
n. a fold: a doubling over as of cloth upon itself: a braid.—v.t. to fold: to double in narrow folds: to interweave.—adj. Plait′ed folded over in narrow folds: braided: interwoven: intricate.—ns. Plait′er one who plaits or braids: a machine for making plaits as in cloth; Plait′ing the act of making plaits.
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Examples
- Newmero kattervang dooze, si vous plait, Jos said in his grandest manner, when he was able to speak. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- He swept up the soft festoons of plaits and fastened in the tall comb (to such uses do men come! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Lydgate had often fastened the plaits before, being among the deftest of men with his large finely formed fingers. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Happily Rosamond did not think of committing any desperate act: she plaited her fair hair as beautifully as usual, and kept herself proudly calm. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- It plaited itself into whatever I thought of, as a bodily pain would have done. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- She procured plain work; she plaited straw; and by various means contrived to earn a pittance scarcely sufficient to support life. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
- Tucking, ruffling, braiding, cording, hemming, turning, plaiting, gaging, and other attachment devices are numerous. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- I might come here sometimes, perhaps, to see you,' said Mary, plaiting the table-cloth in assumed coyness, 'if you would do me a favour. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
Typist: Vance