pleat

Meaning of pleat

noun
  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.
  2. A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.
  3. A plait.
verb
  1. To form one or more pleats in a piece of fabric or a garment.
  2. To plait.

Information about pleat

  • The plural form of pleat is: pleats.
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Hyphenation of pleat

pleat

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • pleat is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

pleat synonyms

Meaning plait:

plait

Meaning ruffle:

ruffle

Meaning plicate:

plicate

Anagrams of pleat

leapt, lepta, palet, Patel, patel, pelta, Petal, petal, Plate, plate, tepal

Words that rhyme with pleat

leat, dangaleat, maleat, bleat, outbleat, cleat, Longleat, isopentyloleat, Compleat, compleat, repleat, unpleat

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