Meaning

4 senses
  1. 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.

    Falte

    скла́дкаskládka

  2. A similar fold in a filter, lampshade, or various other products.

  3. A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.

  4. A plait.

More definitions
  • any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape

Examples

4 sentences
  1. I bought a white, pleated skirt.

    ruЯ купила белую плиссированную юбку. — marafon

  2. Rima always wore a pleated skirt.

  3. Did you know that the proper way to wear a cummerbund is with the pleats facing upward?

  4. Pleated skirts with attached inner shorts are often the preferred choice of bottoms among female tennis and golf players.

Translations

7 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
fold in a fabric of a garment:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
fold in a fabric of a garment:

Origin

From Middle English, from a variant of plait, from Old French pleit. Doublet of plait.

From Middle English, from a variant of plait, from Old French pleit. Doublet of plait.

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Forms

plural: pleats
Singularpleat
Pluralpleats

regular

Synonyms

1 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • any of various types of fold formed by doubling fabric back upon itself and then pressing or stitching into shape:plait

Word family

12 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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