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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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of plait.

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