Rumple vs Pleat - What's the difference?
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To make wrinkled, particularly of fabric.
* Burke
To muss.
To tousle.
(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.
Rumple is a related term of pleat.
As verbs the difference between rumple and pleat
is that rumple is to make wrinkled, particularly of fabric while pleat is to form one or more in a piece of fabric or a garment.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.rumple
English
Verb
- I'll rumple my bedsheets so it looks like I was here last night.
- They would not give a dog's ear of their most rumpled and ragged Scotch paper for twenty of your fairest assignats.