plait
See also: plaît
English
editA box plait with a piped edge at the top.
Etymology
editFrom Middle English pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (compare Old French ploit), from Latin plectō, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette), Russian плести́ (plestí) and also to Old English fleohtan, which it displaced. Doublet of plight (“plait, fold”) and pleat.
Pronunciation
edit- IPA(key): /pleɪt/, /plæt/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- Homophones: plate, plat
- Rhymes: -æt
- Rhymes: -eɪt
Noun
editplait (plural plaits)
- A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
- a box plait
- 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:
- the plaits and foldings of the drapery
- A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- Only the hair as it arched so beautifully from her temples was mixed with silver, and the two simple plaits that lay on her shoulders were filigree of silver and brown.
Derived terms
editRelated terms
editTranslations
editflat fold
braid — see braid
Further reading
editVerb
editplait (third-person singular simple present plaits, present participle plaiting, simple past and past participle plaited)
- (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat
- to plait a ruffle
- (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid
- to plait hair
- plaiting rope
- 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:
- Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editto double in narrow folds — see pleat
to interweave — see braid
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editFrench
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Verb
editplait
Anagrams
editMiddle English
editEtymology
editFrom Old French plait, plet.
Noun
editplait (plural plaits)
- Alternative form of ple
Old French
editAlternative forms
editEtymology
editFrom Latin placitum (“decree”).
Noun
editplait oblique singular, m (oblique plural plaiz or plaitz, nominative singular plaiz or plaitz, nominative plural plait)
Related terms
editDescendants
editReferences
edit- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (plait)
- plai on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub
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