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as in to braid
to form into a braid pleat ribbons

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noun

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Recent Examples of pleat
Verb
The late designer started to experiment with pleating in the late 1980s after an exhibition of his work at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. Jean E. Palmieri, WWD, 19 Nov. 2024 There’s Loewe’s with its pleating, Givenchy’s clad in black croc, Staud’s cast in suede, and Jil Sander’s with a pop of cherry red. Cortne Bonilla, Vogue, 1 Oct. 2024
Noun
This bestselling option delivers 15 minutes of continuous steam to relax wrinkles and sharpen up pleats. Ashley Davis, WWD, 2 Dec. 2024 The gold satin gives it a classy appearance that’s still nice without being as loud as sequins or pleats. Nicol Natale, People.com, 24 Dec. 2024 See all Example Sentences for pleat 
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pleat
Verb
  • Box braids, to cite just one example of African hair braiding, take a long time to perfect.
    Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, 19 Jan. 2025
  • The actor wore her dark hair pulled to one side and braided down, stopping the braid with a few inches to spare and leaving the rest of her hair loose.
    Kara Nesvig, Allure, 19 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • The series follows nine-year-old Pippi, a plucky girl with a pair of quirky plaits who moves to a Swedish village following the death of her parents.
    Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 7 Jan. 2025
  • One of my black dresses in silk or cotton, knee socks, Simone Rocha pearly Crocs, a cashmere jumper, and a ponytail or two plaits.
    airmail.news, airmail.news, 28 Sep. 2024
Noun
  • The one-mile loop is located in the East District and features educational signs informing visitors about the area’s history and its flora, an old homestead foundation, and a saguaro grove.
    Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 25 Jan. 2025
  • Glenn landed six more triple jumps, including three in combination, before her only real mistake — a fall on her triple loop late in the program.
    Dave Skretta, Los Angeles Times, 25 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But the seams of Brooks’ writing show often, becoming impossible to ignore.
    Tomris Laffly, Variety, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Mining Her Country’s Nightmares: In her fiction, Han Kang has probed at the seams of South Korea’s historic wounds.
    New York Times, New York Times, 23 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • The corrugation process guarantees that the containers are robust and lightweight, which is necessary for stacking and transportation in an efficient manner.
    CMG Containers, Sun Sentinel, 1 May 2024
  • Electrons in today’s graphene can move up to a micrometer before getting scattered by imperfections, such as corrugations in the surface of the material or grain boundaries between adjacent crystal patches.
    Chun-Yung Sung, IEEE Spectrum, 30 Jan. 2012
Noun
  • Image For Wynne, the buttons are not only entirely superfluous to the communication humans and dogs already have but also potentially a distraction from their natural barks and howls, their tail wags and tucks.
    Camille Bromley Gabra Zackman Krish Seenivasan David Mason, New York Times, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Nice finished band in front, excellent for a dress top with a French tuck if needed.
    Taylor Lane, StyleCaster, 18 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Their love story adds a sentimental layer that, in competing for narrative space, dilutes this send-up of American imperialism.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Jan. 2025
  • Questions lingered and still do: How did someone manage to get past the president’s security checkpoints, including three layers of protection?
    Jacqueline Charles, Miami Herald, 26 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Nothing really pulls or puckers, which is difficult to achieve on this type of build.
    Kevin Lynn, Newsweek, 6 Jan. 2025
  • These compounds, which look like rings at the molecular level, interact with proteins in your saliva to produce a dry, astringent sensation that makes your mouth pucker.
    Rosemary Trout, Discover Magazine, 27 Nov. 2024

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“Pleat.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pleat. Accessed 31 Jan. 2025.

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