plait
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
plait /plat/
▶noun Brit.
- 1 a single length of hair, rope, or other material made up of three or more interlaced strands.
- 2 archaic term for pleat.
– origin ME: from OFr. pleit ‘a fold’, based on L. plicare ‘to fold’.
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