Plait meaning

plāt, plăt
The definition of a plait is a braid.

An example of a plait is a sectioned and twisted piece of hair.

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Plait is defined as to weave or braid.

An example of plait is weaving in hair extensions.

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To make by braiding.
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A braid of hair, ribbon, etc.
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To braid or interweave.
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To make by braiding.
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A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.

A box plait.

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A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
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To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
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To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
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A braid, especially of hair.
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A pleat.
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To braid.
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To pleat.
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Origin of plait

  • Middle English pleit fold, braid possibly from pleiten to fold, braid alteration (influenced by Old French pleit fold) of Old French plier, pleiir from Latin plicāre to fold plek- in Indo-European roots
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • From Old French pleit, from Latin plecto, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette) and to Russian сплетать (spletatʹ).
    From Wiktionary

Plait Sentence Examples

  • The exports are copra, fungus and straw hats, which the women plait very cleverly.

  • hand with inscribed scutcheons and interlaced plait or knot ornaments (intrecciamenti), the vaultings with stars on a blue ground.

  • But in the great Sala dell' Asse (or della Torre) abundant traces of Leonardo's own hand were found, in the shape of a decoration of intricate geometrical knot or plait work .combined with natural leafage; the abstract puzzle-pattern, of a kind in which Leonardo took peculiar pleasure, intermingling in cunning play and contrast with a pattern of living boughs and leaves exquisitely drawn in free and vital growth.

  • Sa langue est excellente; son style Clair, serre, simple, d'ordinaire assez monotone, vous plait par sa saveur archaique et quelquefois par une certaine grace et une certaine malice."

  • plicare, plectere, to plait, pleat, weave, and in the suffixes of such words as borXauws, duplex, double, simplex, &c. Similarly the termination "-fold" is added to numbers implying "so many," e.g.

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