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plait
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Word definitions for plait in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Plait \Plait\, n. [OE. playte, OF. pleit, L. plicatum, plicitum, p. p. of plicare to fold, akin to plectere to plait. See Ply , and cf. Plat to weave, Pleat , Plight fold.] A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. The plaits and foldings ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, "a fold, a crease," from Anglo-French pleit , Old French ploit , earlier pleit , "fold, manner of folding," from Latin plicatus , past participle of plicare "to lay, fold, twist" (see ply (v.1)). Meaning "interlaced strands of hair, ribbon, etc." ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. 2 A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle. 2 (context transitive English) To interweave the strands ...
Usage examples of plait.
We shall see, for if he puts her in I shall recognize her by her Black Forest clothes, and her burned complexion, her plump figure, her fat hands, her dull expression, her gentle spirit, her generous feet, her bonnetless head, and the plaited tails of hemp-colored hair hanging down her back.
I had made my own spear and spear-thrower, but Yuma had made my boomerang for me, and in exchange I had given him a belt I had plaited from snakeskin.
Wald passed on to the boy who plaited manes, and the youngster readily did as he was bid, working sometimes from before dawn until long after dark, and never seeming to want more than what food he could eat while standing in the kitchen.
All that was demanded of him the boy who plaited manes did without any change in his thin face, any movement of his closed mouth, any flash of his feral eyes.
Wald considered the constant plaiting and adorning of manes and tails a great bother.
And there was a small cup of carved stone, filled with sticky animal fat, within which a length of plaited mastodont fur burned slowly, giving off a greasy smoke.
He completed a plait and tied it with a thin strip from the offcut of her skirt.
Most of the inmates were already in bed, but Mary sat cross-legged on the floor, plaiting a mat of pandanus by the light of a taper of candlenuts.
These include Chinese silk, embroidery in gold thread of extreme fineness and technical skill from Byzantium and the Orient, passementerie, heavy gold brocade, and plaited cords of the finest quality.
Cette baie ou le vent du nord entre avec les goelettes norvegiennes chargees de planches et de fers bruts, Saint-Valery, ne plait point aux etrangers.
She was half out of bed, when there was a knock on the door and Prissy came in with her hair in a plait.
Her long, thin, practiced fingers rapidly unplaited, replaited, and tied up her plait.
She seemed to have herself tolerably well in hand, but her eyes were restless and her fingers plaited and replaited the folds of her dress.
Red ribbons tumbled about it, plaiting and replaiting in the wind that blew through from the other side.
When she had thrown off her dress and put on a dressing jacket, she sat down with her foot under her on the bed that had been made up on the floor, jerked her thin and rather short plait of hair to the front, and began replaiting it.