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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



... circles, and her mottled cheeks showed the traces of bitter tears. She wore no sash round her waist; the embroidery on her petticoat and shift was all crumpled. Her hair, knotted up under a lace cap, had not been combed for four-and-twenty hours, and showed as a thin, short plait and ragged little curls. Leontine had forgotten to put on her ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... rien de tout cela; je suis content du naturel, et de trouver une personne raisonnable, honnete, et de bonne conversation. She is going to-day for a week or more to Lady Spencer's at St. Alban's. I am sure that it is not there, que je trouverois cette simplicite qui me plait. But this, till it is time to embark for Isleworth, when I shall have something more interesting to talk of than the perfections of Me ...
— George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue
... poting sticks, and so sometimes they were called, instead of poking sticks. They were used to plait ...
— A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Vol. VIII (4th edition) • Various
... Kilmansegg! She was not born to steal or beg, Or gather cresses in ditches; To plait the straw, or bind the shoe, Or sit all day to hem and sew, As females must—and not a few— To ...
— The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood • Thomas Hood
... well for the present," Magdalene said; "but the first thing tomorrow I will go out and get him a gown at the clothes mart. His face is far too young for that dress. Moreover the headgear is not suited to the attire; he needs, too, a long plait of hair to hang down behind. That I can also buy for him, and a necklace or two of bright coloured beads. However, he could pass now as my niece should any one chance to come in. Now I will go upstairs and fetch down his clothes and burn them. If a search should be made they will assuredly ...
— By Pike and Dyke: A Tale of the Rise of the Dutch Republic • G.A. Henty


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