pleat
pleat
noun
noun
- a double or multiple fold in a garment or other item made of cloth, held by stitching the top or side
褶
- [with obj.]fold into pleats
打褶，折弄
she was absently pleating her skirt between her fingers.
她心不在焉地在手指间折弄她的裙子。
[as adj. pleated]a short pleated skirt.
一条短褶裙。
- late Middle English: a variant of plait. The written form of the word became obsolete between c.1700 and the end of the 19th cent
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