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• Paper fans generally use an accordion pleat.From the entry accordion pleat
• To make a pleat, double the material at the waist.From the entry double
• The First Class compartments featured full-width mirrors, pleated curtains, folding tables, abstract murals, and teak veneering.2024 March 20, Greg Morse, “XP64: the train the ^([sic]) [that] launched a new style”, in RAIL, number 1005, page 46. From the entry veneering
• She was well known for wearing short pleated skirts with knitted and crotched sleeveless tops.2009, Thokozile Gurganious, The Government's Child, page 47. From the entry crotched
• Dress pants (pleated, thankyouverymuch) with a hole in the back pocket?2008, Cara Freie, I Love Ranch Dressing: And Other Stuff White Midwesterners Like. From the entry thankyouverymuch
• When the galette is pleated, the golden egg yolk peeps out of the crisp brown folds.2007, Anne Willan, “Potatoes, Pasta & Legumes—Good Things on the Side”, in The Country Cooking of France, San Francisco, Calif.: Chronicle…. From the entry galette
• The yards of pleated cloth spilled over his knees when he lifted it.2007, Khaled Hosseini, A Thousand Splendid Suns, BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING (2018), page 69. From the entry burqa
• The legs of Enlightener are also graced by an unspare tailoring of pleated clothes.1995, Paul Ilie, The Age of Minerva: Counter-rational reason in the eighteenth century. From the entry unspare
• Even for her, though, this one was OTT: a skin-tight ankle-length gold pleated gown, simultaneously retro and futuristic.2022, Ellery Lloyd, chapter 2, in The Club, Mantle, →ISBN. From the entry ott
• Junior Katie Wilson displays a typical soft girl aesthetic look with jewelry, a pleated skirt and frilled socks.2021 April 28, “Dressed to express: The reasoning behind student fashion choices”, in The Charger Account, volume S, number 5, San Jose…. From the entry soft girl
• With a maya blue bodice and yale blue skirt, the pleated dress featured a bow like wrap on her left shoulder.2019 September 7, Kellie Chudzinski, “Heather Graham cuts an elegant style in a one shoulder blue gown at the TIFF premiere of her film…. From the entry Yale blue
• Boarders wore navy pleated skirts with white blouses; day girls had brown gymslips, cream blouses and beige jumpers.2013, Jane Howells, Leehurst Swan School: A Centenary History, page 16. From the entry gymslip
• She'll love the nine inch zipper and casual front pleats.2003 October 5, “Mom Jeans: Support - Saturday Night Live”, in Saturday Night Live, season 28, via NBC. From the entry mom jeans
• The pleated skirts she liked were becomingly short.1969, Vladimir Nabokov, Ada or Ardor, Penguin, published 2011, page 44. From the entry becomingly
• Hair brushed back, legs oiled, new dresses and pressed pleats, fresh pocket handkerchiefs and little handbags, all homesewn.1969, Maya Angelou, chapter 23, in I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, New York: Bantam, published 1971, page 149. From the entry homesewn
• Double-breasted coats, swagger coats, bias, very draped, and very pleated skirts require more cloth than straight cuts and hence cost more.1957, Mabel Deane Erwin, Clothing for Moderns, page 166. From the entry draped
• MAD MONEY "stays put" in this pleated Acetate Crepe bag with "jools" on top and the right fixin's inside.1937, Stella Blum, Everyday Fashion of the Thirties as pictured in Sears Catalogs, published 1986, page 91. From the entry jool
• Lots of gorgeous details embellish this cotton kurta from frayed layered collar, fabric loops and buttons to a pleated hemline with laces.2019 November 20, “Ammara Khan brings effortless elegance in RTW collection 'Queen Bee'”, in Something Haute, archived from the original…. From the entry brink pink
• But Warren came with my mother the very next day, in his Bill Cosby sweater and pleated khaki pants, ready to meet his niece.2014, Sarah Healy, House of Wonder, New American Library, →ISBN. From the entry Bill Cosby sweater
• I saw myself smart and clean in a white blouse and dark-red pleated terylene skirt, with blazer and gloves and a hat.1988, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions, Faber & Faber Limited (2021), page 268. From the entry terylene
• Oogonium with projections or lateral pleating of the wall (flange ) ; circumcision supramedian , median , submedian or distinctly inframedian, sometimes resembling a hinged pore.2006, P. M. McCarthy, Lyn Jessup, Algae of Australia - Volume 3, page 51. From the entry inframedian
• His heart leaped when he saw how fetching she looked in her afternoon dress, silk chiffon with pleated sleeves, in a becoming shade of dusty rose.1999, John Jakes, American Dreams, page 80. From the entry dusty rose
• Schoolgirls are a perennial bloom in Japanese erotology, because of their distinctive uniforms, middy blouses, pleated skirts and black stockings, clearly designed by Colette's first husband.1971, Angela Carter, “Once More into the Mangle”, in Shaking a Leg, Vintage, published 2013, page 300. From the entry middy blouse

Meaning of pleat

1. noun A fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.
2. noun A similar fold in a filter, lampshade, or various other products.
3. noun A fold in an organ, usually a longitudinal fold in a long leaf such as that of palmetto, lending it stiffness.

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How do you use pleat in a sentence?

Pleat is used as a noun and verb. For example: “Paper fans generally use an accordion pleat.”

What is a short sentence with pleat?

“pleat my hair”

What does pleat mean?

Pleat means a fold in the fabric of a garment, usually a skirt, as a part of the design of the garment, with the purpose of adding controlled fullness and freedom of movement, or taking up excess fabric. There are many types of pleats, differing in their construction and appearance.