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Fold in some skirts
Answer for the clue "Fold in some skirts ", 5 letters:
pleat
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Word definitions for pleat in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a fold," 1580s, variant of plait (n.). With a gap in the printed record 17c.-18c., but probably it was in continuous oral use.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context sewing English) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, ...
Usage examples of pleat.
Her mother made all her own clothes and taught Rita to do the same, starting her on potholders and dirndl skirts, working her way up to blouses with buttonholes, pants with pleats and pockets.
On her white shirtwaist was a pleated jabot of cheap lace, caught with a large novelty pin of imitation coral.
Her ovipositor had already tucked itself away and the pleated skin of her abdomen was coming back into place.
The first row would be placed near the outside edge of the buckram and each pleat sewed as it is laid.
Laying a bundle of programs upon the dressing table, the usherette made a quick probe of the pleated dress.
They buttoned on pleated shirts, experimented with bow ties, and thought about when they were a boy and a young father and Randy had put shaving cream on his face and shaved with a bladeless razor, while his dad stood beside him and shaved with a real one.
She was wearing a plain little frock of black marocain with a little soft pleated white collar.
The overgown, of a sober wine-black satin that fell in heavy pleats straight from the shoulders, flared slightly over the skirt, opening a few centimeters at the hem to reveal flashes of the brighter brocade beneath.
Lisel sat on the edge of the canopied bed, pleating and repleating the folds of the scarlet cloak between her fingers.
He was dressed in a high white collar, white bow tie, knife pleats down his chest, a black coat, stephanotis at the black satin buttonhole.
He smiled too, and fought a ridiculous and unclerical impulse to put a finger very lightly on one of those tiny coils of hair at the nape of her neck which had sprung from her severely rolled French pleat.
Mariah says nothing, just pleats and unpleats the fabric of her skirt.
The tranjit would not look at her, only at the coarse white cloth she was pleating and unpleating over her knees.
The upper doors of the breakfront were lined, where one would expect glass, with a pleated yellowed fabric.
History was suddenly pleated, the years juxtaposed, and the laughter was that of childhood again.