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Plaited vs Plaided - What's the difference?

plaited | plaided |

As a verb plaited

is (plait).

As an adjective plaided is

of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.

plaited

English

Verb

(head)
  • (plait)

    • plait

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
    • a box plait
  • * Addison
    • the plaits and foldings of the drapery
  • A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.

    • Related terms

    * (l)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • 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,
    • 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

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    plaided

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Of the material of which plaids are made; tartan.
  • * Wordsworth
    • In plaided vest.
  • Wearing a plaid.
  • * 1854 , William Campbell, The Raid of Albyn
    • Is there no Albyn now to wake thy song,
    No chiefs who still their fathers' worth retain,
    No plumed and plaided clans those hills among,
    Worthy to claim the tribute of thy strain?