plait

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But, thick as the plait was, if it had belonged to any one less shapely, less blonde, less sprightly, hardly any one would have noticed it; the merry life which it led behind her would have passed unobserved, and that, although it was the thickest plait which any one in the little town had ever boasted.

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  1. noun A braid, especially of hair.
  2. noun A pleat.
  3. transitive verb To braid.
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  • At the end of each plait, the hair was knotted through a small, polished animal vertebrae. —  forestmage
  • All that remained of her unraveled plait was a ragged mass of algae. —  FSF,May2004
  • - S'il vous plait, I say, trying to be nasal, very nasal. —  The Daily Iowan - Online Edition
  • S'il vous plait, j'ai besoin de parler à Safka McDougall. —  The Daily Iowan - Online Edition
  • But I'd love to be able to select multiple e-mails to mark them all for deletion simultaneously .... s'il vous plait, Tom? —  VersionTracker: Mac OS X
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  1. Middle English pleit, fold, braid, possibly from pleiten, to fold, braid, alteration (influenced by Old French pleit, fold) of Old French plier, pleiir, from Latin plicāre, to fold; see plek- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Also plat, pleat, and (obsolete) plight; early modern English also playt,pleyght, etc.; from Middle English plaite, playte, from Old French pleit, plet, ploit, French pli, a fold, ply, = Provencal pleg, plec = Spanish pliegue = Portuguese prega = Italian piega, a fold, from Middle Latin as if *plictum, neuter, *plicta, feminine, for plicatum, plicata, neuter and feminine, of Latin plicatus, past participle of plicare, fold: see ply.
  2. Also plat, pleat, and (obsolete) plight; from Middle English plaiten, playtyn, plaitin, pleten, from playte, plaite, etc.: see plait, n.
 

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