| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| PRONUNCIATION: |  pl t |
| NOUN: | A fold in cloth made by doubling the material upon itself and then pressing or stitching it into place. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: pleat·ed, pleat·ing, pleats
To press or arrange in pleats: pleat a skirt; pleat curtains. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English plet, variant of plait, pleat, fold. See plait. | | OTHER FORMS: | pleat er —NOUN
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