Plait vs Lace - What's the difference?
plait | lace | Related terms |
A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
* Addison
A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat; as, to plait a ruffle.
To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
(uncountable) A light fabric containing patterns of holes, usually built up from a single thread.(w)
* (Francis Bacon) (1561-1626)
* , title=The Mirror and the Lamp
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(countable) A cord or ribbon passed through eyelets in a shoe or garment, pulled tight and tied to fasten the shoe or garment firmly.(w)
A snare or gin, especially one made of interwoven cords; a net.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
(slang, obsolete) Spirits added to coffee or another beverage.
(label) To fasten (something) with laces.
* (Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
(label) To add alcohol, poison, a drug or anything else potentially harmful to (food or drink).
(label) To interweave items. (lacing one's fingers together)
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet: or anon we shot into a clearing, with a colored glimpse of the lake and its curving shore far below us.}}
(label) To interweave the spokes of a bicycle wheel.
To beat; to lash; to make stripes on.
* (w, Roger L'Estrange) (1616-1704)
To adorn with narrow strips or braids of some decorative material.
Plait is a related term of lace.
As a verb plait
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English
Noun
(en noun)- a box plait
- the plaits and foldings of the drapery
Verb
(en verb)- Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.
Anagrams
* ----lace
English
Noun
- Our English dames are much given to the wearing of costly laces .
citation, passage=She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace , […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid, […]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.}}
- Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. […] Frills, ruffles, flounces, lace , complicated seams and gores: not only did they sweep the ground and have to be held up in one hand elegantly as you walked along, but they had little capes or coats or feather boas.
- Vulcanus had caught thee [Venus] in his lace .
- (Fairfax)
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* (cord) ** (for a shoe) shoelace ** (for a garment) tieVerb
(lac)- When Jenny's stays are newly laced .
- I'll lace your coat for ye.
- (Shakespeare)
