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Pleat vs Crimple - What's the difference?

pleat | crimple |

As verbs the difference between pleat and crimple

is that pleat is to form one or more in a piece of fabric or a garment while crimple is (archaic) to crumple, crimp.

As a noun pleat

is (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.

pleat

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • (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.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To form one or more in a piece of fabric or a garment.

    • Derived terms

    * accordion pleat * box pleat * inverted box pleat * knife pleat * pencil pleat * sunburst pleat

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    crimple

    English

    Verb

    (crimpl)
  • (archaic) to crumple, crimp
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Robert Smythe Hichens, title=The Green Carnation, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=Esme assented with a graceful bend of his crimpled head, and in a clear and deliberate voice began to speak. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1862, author=James R. Gilmore, title=Among the Pines, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The boy had dwindled to a skeleton, and the skin lay on his face in crimpled folds, like a mask of black crape. }}