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Pleat   /plit/   Listen
Pleat

noun
1.
Any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape.  Synonym: plait.
verb
1.
Pleat or gather into a ruffle.  Synonym: ruffle.
2.
Fold into pleats,.  Synonym: plicate.



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"Pleat" Quotes from Famous Books



... the pink corded silk swished disdainfully about, its Watteau pleat flashed out of sight through the door-day, and that portal was slammed in the speaker's face. The mover of multitudes found himself alone in the darkened hall, snubbed and wrathful. Cary's room was just above, and the tutor ...
— A Tame Surrender, A Story of The Chicago Strike • Charles King


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