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plait
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[plat], (Noun)
Definitions:
- a single length of hair, straw, rope, or other material made up of three or more interlaced strands
(e.g: she wore her dark hair in plaits)
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Old French pleit ‘a fold’, based on Latin plicare ‘to fold’. The word was formerly often pronounced like ‘plate’; since late Middle English there has been an alternative spelling plat, to which the current pronunciation corresponds
[plat], (Verb)
Definitions:
- form (hair, straw, rope, or other material) into a plait or plaits
(e.g: her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head)
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Origin
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late Middle English: from Old French pleit ‘a fold’, based on Latin plicare ‘to fold’. The word was formerly often pronounced like ‘plate’; since late Middle English there has been an alternative spelling plat, to which the current pronunciation corresponds
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