Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat · To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat. · A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
From Middle English pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (compare Old French ploit), from Latin plectō, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette), Russian плести́ (plestí) and also to Old English fleohtan, which it displaced. Doublet of plight (“plait, fold”) and pleat.
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