Word.ws English Dictionary

plissé

plissé noun: a narrow pleat made by gathering fabric with stitches, wetting the fabric, and setting by allowing it to dry under weight or tension.

Noun

plissé (plural plissés)

  1. A narrow pleat made by gathering fabric with stitches, wetting the fabric, and setting by allowing it to dry under weight or tension.

Forms of plissé

pluralplissés

Origin of plissé

Borrowed from French plissé.

Questions about plissé

What does plissé mean?
Plissé means a narrow pleat made by gathering fabric with stitches, wetting the fabric, and setting by allowing it to dry under weight or tension.
What part of speech is plissé?
Plissé is a noun.
What is the plural of plissé?
The plural of plissé is plissés.

Words near plissé in the dictionary

  1. pliskies
  2. plisky
  3. pliss
  4. plisse
  5. plisses
  6. plissé
  7. plissés
  8. plithotaxis
  9. plitt
  10. Plitteris
  11. Plitterises

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: plissé (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “plissé.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pliss%C3%A9. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.