noun
definition
A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.
example
a box plait
definition
A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
verb
definition
To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat
example
to plait a ruffle
definition
To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid
example
plaiting rope
Examples of plait in a Sentence
The exports are copra, fungus and straw hats, which the women plait very cleverly.
A plait of braids encircling the crown looks exquisite when the rest of the hair is worn down and loose.
Flat twists have the look of braids, but you do not have to divide the hair and plait.
Spotted and discoloured straws are dyed either in pipe or in plait.
Failing that, Diet Coke (' Un Coca Lite, s'il vous plait ' ).
Jokes apart would love some info s'il vous plait.
James Lumley was charged with stealing a bundle of straw plait from the gig of Frederick William Bethel at Lavenham.
Gather these together in a rubber band and stitch your false plait to them.
Her long, thin, practiced fingers rapidly unplaited, replaited, and tied up her plait.
Toys All bunnies are given a twig ball, a straw plait and a tunnel in their shed.
When using synthetic hair for the braids it's best to plait the hair all the way down to the end.
Plait the braids into two or three larger plaits and wrap the ends of the plaits into the knot that is securing the ponytail.
But in the great Sala dell' Asse (or della Torre) abundant traces of Leonardo's own hand were found, in the shape of a decoration of intricate geometrical knot or plait work .combined with natural leafage; the abstract puzzle-pattern, of a kind in which Leonardo took peculiar pleasure, intermingling in cunning play and contrast with a pattern of living boughs and leaves exquisitely drawn in free and vital growth.
The men either cut their hair short or plait it; married women plait their hair and wind round the head a black or parti-coloured silk handkerchief; girls wear their hair short.
Wants to vanquish Buonaparte? said the old man, shaking his powdered head as much as the tail, which Tikhon was holding fast to plait, would allow.
A dirty, barefooted maid was sitting on a trunk, and, having undone her pale-colored plait, was pulling it straight and sniffing at her singed hair.
Tuscan plaits and hats vary enormously in quality and value; the plait of a hat of good quality may represent the work of four or five days, while hats of the highest quality may each occupy six to nine months in making.