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placket (plak′it)

noun

  1. a finished slit with a fastener, as at the waist of a skirt or collar of a shirt, to make it easy to put on and take off
  2. Archaic
    1. a pocket, esp. in a woman's skirt
    2. a petticoat

Etymology: prob. altered < placard, in obs. sense “breastplate, top of skirt”

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
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