pleat (noun)

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• pleat — ► NOUN ▪ a fold in a garment or other item made of cloth, held by stitching the top or side. ► VERB ▪ fold or form into pleats. ORIGIN variant of PLAIT(Cf. ↑plait) …   English terms dictionary

• pleat´er — pleat «pleet», noun, verb. –n. a flat, usually narrow fold made in cloth by doubling it on itself, especially one of a series of folds by which the edge of a garment or drapery is symmetrically taken in. Pleats are arranged in many different… …   Useful english dictionary

• pleat — (v.) 1560s, used as the verb version of PLAIT (Cf. plait). Later (1580s) as a noun. Related: Pleated; pleating …   Etymology dictionary

• pleat — noun 1》 a double or multiple fold in a garment or other item made of cloth, held by stitching the top or side. 2》 a plait. verb [often as adjective pleated] fold or form into pleats. Origin ME: var. of plait …   English new terms dictionary

• kick pleat — noun pleat in back of a straight skirt to allow ease in walking • Hypernyms: ↑pleat, ↑plait • Part Holonyms: ↑skirt * * * noun : a short inverted pleat used to give breadth (as at the bottom of a skirt for ease in walking or at the bottom of a… …   Useful english dictionary

• knife pleat — noun a single pleat turned in one direction • Hypernyms: ↑pleat, ↑plait • Hyponyms: ↑sunburst pleat, ↑sunray pleat * * * noun : one of a series of narrow sharply pressed pleats all turned in one direction * * * a sharply creased narrow pleat,… …   Useful english dictionary

• inverted pleat — noun a box pleat reversed so that the fullness is turned inward • Hypernyms: ↑pleat, ↑plait * * * noun : a pleat formed by bringing two folded edges toward or to a center point on the outside of the material to form a box pleat on the inside * *… …   Useful english dictionary

• pleat — [14] Pleat, plait, and plight ‘predicament’ are essentially the same word, but have become differentiated over the centuries. All three go back to Vulgar Latin *plicitum or *plictum ‘fold’, a noun use of the past participle of Latin plicāre… …   The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

• pleat — I UK [pliːt] / US [plɪt] noun [countable] Word forms pleat : singular pleat plural pleats a fold in a piece of cloth, for example in a woman s skirt II UK [pliːt] / US [plɪt] verb [transitive] Word forms pleat : present tense I/you/we/they pleat… …   English dictionary

• pleat — [14] Pleat, plait, and plight ‘predicament’ are essentially the same word, but have become differentiated over the centuries. All three go back to Vulgar Latin *plicitum or *plictum ‘fold’, a noun use of the past participle of Latin plicāre… …   Word origins

• pleat — pleat1 [ plit ] noun count a fold in a piece of cloth, for example in a woman s skirt pleat pleat 2 [ plit ] verb transitive to make pleats in cloth ╾ pleat|ed adjective: a pleated skirt …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English