Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A braid, especially of hair.
- n. A pleat.
- v. To braid.
- v. To pleat.
- v. To make by braiding.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A flattened gather or fold; an over-lapping fold made by doubling cloth or some similar fabric in narrow strips upon itself.
- n. A braid, as of hair, straw, etc.
- n. Rope-yarn strands braided into sennit.
- To fold; double in narrow strips: as, to plait a gown or a sleeve. See plaiting and box-plaiting.
- To braid; interweave the locks or strands of: as, to plait the hair.
- To mat; felt.
- To twist; twine.
Wiktionary
- 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. transitive To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
- v. transitive To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
- n. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
- v. To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat.
- v. To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat
WordNet 3.0
- v. make by braiding or interlacing
- v. weave into plaits
- n. a hairdo formed by braiding or twisting the hair
- n. any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape
Etymologies
- From Old French pleit, from Latin plecto, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette) and to Russian сплетать. (Wiktionary)
- 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. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“In each iteration, the plait is copied, and a transformation is applied.”
“The stitch shown in fig. 69, known as plait or Cretan, is commonly seen on Cretan and other Eastern embroideries.”
“Now, whoever she was with, there was always one as well, she was never alone now, not in the street, not at home; of this the plait was the sacred symbol.”
“Jeanine is about to "plait" or braid Suzy's hair when we get back from town. ill be sure to post pics :”
“Here it was that he discovered that her wrists were bound together behind her back with a kind of plait of thongs so intricate that he was quite unable to release them.”
“The lively old woman was sitting close against her bit of fire, on her left a small deal table which held her cold potatoes and cold bacon; on her right a tiny window and window-sill whereon lay her coil of "plait" and the simple straw-splitting machine she had just been working.”
“-- When the vertical stitches are laid, a kind of plait is formed in the following way.”
“Musshoo, s'il vous plait, which is la direction pour aller à le Palais”
Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge
“Musshoo, s'il vous plait, which is la direction pour aller à Thomas”
Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge
“I smiled when I saw her, one plait loose and the other still held in place with a ribbon, proof of all the mischief in the school bus.”
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