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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of unpleat.
  • adjective Without pleats.

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Examples

  • I'd be the gym teacher that all the kids thought was cool because he shopped at The Gap, was unpleated, and wore expensive ribbed t-shirts in assorted colors, none of which were the sports gray I had so fondly clung to in my past life.

    Unpleated Coe Douglas 2011

  • “Yeah, unpleated pants,” she said, her words heavy with suspicion.

    Unpleated Coe Douglas 2011

  • Where as I went around in my pleated Haggar wrinkle-free washables, he gallivanted around here unpleated, uncuffed, and unconcerned.

    Unpleated Coe Douglas 2011

  • He studied her, noting the fretful way she pleated and unpleated her linen napkin, and the way she kept pulling her cell phone from her bag to check that it was on.

    Hot For Him Mayberry, Sarah 2007

  • The skirt was unpleated silk, with tiny darts at the waist, and a handkerchief bottom.

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

  • Seal dumpling by pressing pleated and unpleated edges tightly together, enclosing filling.

    Archive 2005-09-01 2005

  • Seal dumpling by pressing pleated and unpleated edges tightly together, enclosing filling.

    Shrimp Potstickers 2005

  • Like all Altans, he cut his hair short, just above the ears, and he wore the short, unpleated kilt that all Altan farmers sported.

    Joust Lackey, Mercedes 2003

  • Her fingers unpleated so she could point to what he was holding in his hand.

    The Bellini Bride Reid, Michelle 2002

  • His gray worsted-wool trousers, unpleated, were worn but the crease was perfect.

    Death on the River Walk Hart, Carolyn 1999

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