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Plait   /pleɪt/   Listen
noun
Plait  n.  
1.
A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat; as, a box plait. "The plaits and foldings of the drapery."
2.
A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
Polish plait. (Med.) Same as Plica.


verb
Plait  v. t.  (past & past part. plaited; pres. part. plaiting)  
1.
To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
2.
To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.





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"Plait" Quotes from Famous Books



... squaw, who was perfectly white, and who could not understand anything that was said to her. She wore dresses down to her feet, of which she seemed to be ashamed, and our women said she tied cords tightly about her waist, so as to make it small. She had very long hair, and did not plait but rolled it, and, instead of letting it hang down, wrapped it ...
— The Great Salt Lake Trail • Colonel Henry Inman
... SINGLE PLAIT STITCH.—Pass the needle across the canvas through two threads, from right to left; you then cross four threads downward, and pass the needle as before; then cross upward over two threads aslant, and again ...
— The Ladies' Work-Table Book • Anonymous
... dormer the roof ran down steeply a yard or more to the eaves; but she had full command of the opposite houses, and at one of the windows a young girl was dressing herself. The woman watched her plait her fair hair, looking sideways the while at a little mirror; and saw her put on a poor necklace and remove it again and try a piece of ribbon. Gradually the watcher became interested; from interest she passed to speculation, and wondered with a slight shudder how this girl ...
— In Kings' Byways • Stanley J. Weyman
... tres bien!" said my principal as we entered his parlour. "Je vois que monsieur a de l'adresse; cela, me plait, car, dans l'instruction, l'adresse fait tout ...
— The Professor • (AKA Charlotte Bronte) Currer Bell
... soft glory they have lost! Alas for the Ashantee wigs they wear! Nor plait nor coil nor ringlet, but a mass Of shorn dead hair from poorer women's heads. Of bulging wire and hard, stiff, glittering bands. A heap no loving hand ...
— The Forerunner, Volume 1 (1909-1910) • Charlotte Perkins Gilman


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