Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Folded; made in or with, or marked by, folds or flattened flutings; pleated: as, a shirt with a plaited bosom.
- In botany and zoology, folded lengthwise like the plaits of a closed fan; fluted.
- Wrinkled; contracted; knitted.
- Braided; interwoven: as, plaited hair.
- Tangled; intricate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Folded; doubled over; braided; figuratively, involved; intricate; artful.
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
plait .
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Examples
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Take some chicken breasts, slice them in halves, add some cheese I used a 'trecchia' that is sold locally, it's a kind of plaited mozzarella and a generous amount of your pesto.
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Take some chicken breasts, slice them in halves, add some cheese I used a 'trecchia' that is sold locally, it's a kind of plaited mozzarella and a generous amount of your pesto.
Archive 2004-07-01 2004
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Take some chicken breasts, slice them in halves, add some cheese I used a 'trecchia' that is sold locally, it's a kind of plaited mozzarella and a generous amount of your pesto.
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The rope, being of a kind of plaited grass, soon frayed and broke, and he freed himself.
England, My England 1907
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The walls were made of bertam (a kind of plaited reed) so as to be easily destroyed and replaced in case of infection.
From Jungle to Java The Trivial Impressions of a Short Excursion to Netherlands India Arthur Louis Keyser 1890
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a slick for that purpose, a use to which our nails were afterwards applied with great advantage, and through these holes a kind of plaited cordage is passed, so as to hold the planks strongly together: The seams are caulked with dried rushes, and the whole outside of the vessel is paid with a gummy juice, which some of their trees produce in great plenty, and which is a very good succedaneum for pitch.
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"plaited" laces, a variety grafted on the old Maltese.
MetaFilter Catseye 2010
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I plaited straw hats in Padok, gathered grass in Whang-hai, and in Masenpo sold myself to a rice farmer to toil bent double in the flooded paddies for less than a coolie's pay.
Chapter 15 2010
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The Independent on Sunday's Leyla Sanai wrote that St Aubyn's characteristic blend of acid wit, intellect and compassion is plaited through At Last . . .
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Trade, Sennit,. .plaited straw or palm leaves, &c., of which grass hats are made.
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