Plait vs Pleat - What's the difference?
plait | pleat |
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,
(sewing) A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
(botany) A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
A plait.
Pleat is a related term of plait.
In transitive terms the difference between plait and pleat
is that plait is to interweave the strands or locks of; to braid; to plat; as, to plait hair; to plait rope while pleat is to form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.plait
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.
