plaited

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Part of it was plaited, and at the upper end there was a knot.

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  1. Folded; made in or with, or marked by, folds or flattened flutings; pleated: as, a shirt with a plaited bosom. The Romaines, of any other people most seuere censurers of decencie, thought no vpper garment so comely for a ciuill man as a long playted gowne. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 237.
  2. In botany and zoology, folded lengthwise like the plaits of a closed fan; fluted.
  3. Wrinkled; contracted; knitted. A conflicting of shame and ruth Was in his plaited brow. Keats, Endymion, i.

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