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pleached

/pliːtʃt/US/plit͡ʃt/

pleached adjective: entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited. Also the simple past and past participle of pleach.

Adjective

pleached (comparative more pleached, superlative most pleached)

  1. Entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.
    • Would'ſt thou be window'd in great Rome, and ſee / Thy Maſter thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe / His corrigible necke, his face ſubdu'de / To penetratiue ſhame; [...]c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
  2. Of a hedge, trees, etc.: created by interweaving branches.
    • [T]he prince and Count Claudio, walking in a thicke pleached alley in mine orchard, were thus much ouer-heard by a man of mine: [...]1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] for Andrew Wise, and William Aspley, published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I...
    • I, in my pleached garden, watched the pomp.1857, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Days

Also used as

pleached is also the simple past and past participle of pleach.

Forms of pleached

comparativemore pleached
superlativemost pleached

Origin of pleached

From pleach + -ed.

Words formed from pleached

Words that rhyme with pleached

Questions about pleached

What does pleached mean?
Pleached means entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.
What part of speech is pleached?
Pleached is an adjective.
How do you pronounce pleached?
Pleached is pronounced /pliːtʃt/ (UK).

Words near pleached in the dictionary

  1. plea-bargained
  2. plea-bargaining
  3. plea-bargains
  4. pleace
  5. pleach
  6. pleached
  7. pleacher
  8. pleachers
  9. pleaches
  10. pleaching
  11. plead

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