plait. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

plait

PRONUNCIATION:	plt, plt
NOUN:	1. A braid, especially of hair. 2. A pleat.
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: plait·ed, plait·ing, plaits 1. To braid. 2. To pleat. 3. To make by braiding.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English pleit, fold, braid, possibly from pleiten, to fold, braid, alteration (influenced by Old French pleit, fold) of Old French plier, pleiir, from Latin plicre, to fold. See plek- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	plaiter —NOUN


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