ˈplaited, ppl. a.
(see prec.)
[f. plait v. + -ed1.]
1. Folded, doubled, gathered in folds; furnished with pleats. In this sense now generally written pleated.
| c 1440 Promp. Parv. 402/2 Playtyd, plicatus. c 1440 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 79/151 What schal þanne profite þi gowne y-pleite [rime waite]? 1467 Songs Costume (Percy Soc.) 57 Your short stuffede dowblettes and your pleytid gownys. 1559 Mirr. Mag., Mowbray's Banishm. xxv, Their pleyted garmentes herewith well accorde. 1732 Berkeley Alciphr. iii. §9 An English courtier,..with his Gothic, succinct, plaited garment. 1839 tr. Lamartine's Trav. East 29/1 The tube covered with plaited silk. |
b. Wrinkled, corrugated, fluted, striated.
| 1519 W. Horman Vulg. 241 A playted pyller gathereth dust. 1624 Wotton Archit. in Reliq. (1651) 231 The body of this Columne is perpetually channeled like a thick pleighted Gown. 1776 J. Lee Introd. Bot. Explan. Terms 386 Plicatum, plaited, folded in sharp Flexures from the Disk to the Margin. 1830 Lindley Nat. Syst. Bot. 231 The plaited æstivation of the corolla. 1833 Rennie Alph. Angling 51 The tail, with its peculiar fin, more or less plaited. |
2. Braided, intertwined, formed into a
plait (
n. 2); interlaced, interwoven. Also
platted.
| 1594 Carew Tasso (1881) 15 Playted lockes pressing with cap of plate. 1694 Addison Virg. Georg. iv. Misc. Wks. 1765 I. 22 Tho' barks or plaited willows make your hive. 1830 Tennyson Ode to Memory v, A garden bower'd close With plaited alleys of the trailing rose. |
† 3. fig. Involved, complicated, complex.
Obs.| 1387–8 T. Usk Test. Love i. viii. (Skeat) I. 45 Diligent love, with many playted praisinges. 1662 Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. iii. iii. §15 (ed. 3) 510 He left behind him such plaited pictures in his history. |
4. Comb. and special collocations, as
plaited-tailed adj.;
plaited hair, Polish plait: see
plait n. 2 c;
plaited lace: see
quot.;
plaited stitch, one of the stitches of worsted work or Berlin wool work: see
quot.;
plaited string work, a kind of fancy work made with small cord or string plaited or twisted into simple patterns;
plaited worm, a fluke-worm of the family Aspidogasteridæ.
| 1882 Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 394/2 *Plaited Laces... Italy claims the first invention of these, and, much being made at Genoa, it was known as Genoese Lace, but as large quantities were also worked in Spain,..plaited laces also received the name of Point d'Espagne. Ibid., Plaited Laces are made upon a pillow and with Bobbins; the patterns are geometrical, and open, and have no grounds; for common purposes tinsel is used instead of real gold [wire or fine thread]. |
| Ibid. 31/1 *Plaited Stitch, this stitch is an imitation of the ordinary herringbone, and is frequently called by that name. |
| Ibid. 396/1 *Plaited Stringwork... Plaited string is a suitable work for ladies with weak sight. The work makes good table mats under hot dishes. |
| 1836 T. Hook G. Gurney (1850) I. v. 97, I soon came up with the eight *plaited-tailed animals which were dragging the mountain, second only in size to the Juggernaut idol. |