pleatings

• “Aileen had created an impression in a street costume of dark blue silk with velvet pelisse to match, and trimmed with elaborate pleatings and shirrings of the same materials.”

  The Financier

• “Hat frames are covered with maline; it is used to cover wings to keep feathers in place; to cover faded or worn-out flowers; for shirred brims and crowns; for pleatings; for folds on edges of brims to give a soft look; and for bows.”

  Make Your Own Hats

• “With their silly -- whaleboned waists and their grotesque basques and impossible pleatings!”

  Little Miss By-The-Day

• “Now what neither Keineth nor Peggy, nor even Mrs. Lee could guess was that beneath the folds of expensive linen and lace and dainty pleatings of rose silk was a heart that was just hungry because -- years and years before -- it had forgotten "how to have fun!”

  Keineth

• “Only an experienced needlewoman could do justice in words to such a variety of rimplings and crinklings, of pleatings and puckerings, of gaugings, rufflings, gofferings, and pin-tuckings as it is possible to find; though somebody with a knowledge of heraldry could perhaps convey a few of the designs in such terms as nebuly, raguly or dancetty (semée, he might add, of starfish proper).”

  Try Anything Twice

• “She prinked out its ruffles and pleatings as she went.”

  Cheerful—By Request

• “Twas late when I awoke the next day with something of a dull ache in my neck, and a prodigious stiffness, studying the pleatings of the bed canopy over my head.”

  Richard Carvel — Complete

• “Then there was the bed-canopy, the pleatings of which were gone, and it was turned white instead of the old blue.”

  Richard Carvel — Complete

• “Another time, at a box-party at the theater, she had noted the rich elaborateness of Mrs. Sohlberg's dainty frock, the endless pleatings of pale silk, the startling charm of the needlework and the ribbons -- countless, rosetted, small -- that meant hard work on the part of some one.”

  The Titan

• “In the obscurer pleatings of draperies it lay thick.”

  The Old Wives' Tale

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