placket

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I will always remember its mockneck collar with three-button placket, and how well it went with a pair of jeans and my black leather jacket.

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  1. noun A slit in a dress, blouse, or skirt.
  2. noun A pocket, especially in a woman's skirt.

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  • When I tried it on the front placket, all I could see were the impressions of the seam allowances.Dyesticks are permanent, so I had to improvise quickly.
  • My placket was interfaced and faced so I needed a slightly larger hole than I would have on one layer of plain fabric.2.
  • The button placket was strange and bulging at the waist, and did her no favors.
  • Voluminous trousers, gathered at the ankle into stiff, embroidered cuffs, matched the knee-length tunic, which was worked with intertwined patterns of beaded embroidery along the neck and down the buttoned placket, as well as following the two long seams that ran up the front and down the back. —  The Game--Laurie King--Mary Russell 07
  • Very often one saw the patients zipped up like a placket-hole. —  Spinsters in Jeopardy - Ngaio Marsh - Alleyn 17
 

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  1. from Old French placquette, a thin plate (a placket being apparently a patch sewed on), diminutive of plaque, plate: see plack. Cf. plaquette, placard.
 

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/ˈplækɛt/
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