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Meanings of plicate in English

Fold into pleats, "Pleat the cloth"

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Examples for "pleat"
Examples for "pleat"
1
The high temperature makes the glue mold the pleat into the material.
Reuters
2
Trends such as claret and pleat-front trousers were present and correct.
The Guardian
3
And she did hope that pleat from the neck would look all right.
The History of David Grieve
4
He inserted two fingers into the front pleat of his shirt.
Star-Dust: A Story of an American Girl
5
I have learned to gut a fish and to flawlessly pleat a blouse.
The day the falls stood still
Usage of plicate in English
1
A fine, solid, brown species, generally more or less eroded, and with a peculiarly strongly plicate columella.
Explorations in Australia / The Journals of John McDouall Stuart...
2
Cells cup-shaped, shallow; mouth nearly vertical, subquadrangular, margin subcrenate, plicate; with a small acute central denticle in front, and a wide shallow notch behind.
Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Rattlesnake, Commanded By the ...
Plicate through the time