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Placket vs Placet - What's the difference?

placket | placet |

As nouns the difference between placket and placet

is that placket is a slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings while placet is a vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.

placket

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • a slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings
  • :* 1922': Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving. Biting her nether lip, hooking the '''placket of her skirt. — James Joyce, ''Ulysses
  • :* 2001': When the '''placket of his shirt gave way, the stones tore freely into the skin on his chest and back, and he no longer imagined Lucy Hartley enjoying his guitar serenades – he wondered if he would get to the roof alive. — Glen David Gold, ''Carter Beats the Devil
  • (obsolete) A petticoat, especially an under petticoat.
  • (obsolete, slang, by extension) A woman.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)
  • (obsolete) A woman's pocket.

    • placet

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A vote of assent, as of the governing body of a university, an ecclesiastical council, etc.
  • The assent of the civil power to the promulgation of an ecclesiastical ordinance.
    • (Shipley)
  • * J. P. Peters
    • The king annulled the royal placet .
    (Webster 1913) ----