plaited

adjectiveB2Very rare — outside the 30,000 commonest English words, so you will meet it in writing rather than in speechleans written

Plaited means woven into three interlacing strands. Plaited hair.

The same word covers bread, leather and rope, since the technique is identical. Plaited work is stronger than the strands separately, because the load is shared across all three.

Definitions of plaited

1adjectiveplaitedWoven into three interlacing strands.B2
“Her plaited hair reached the middle of her back.”

plaited is a quality.

Where it comes from

Latin
plectō
Anglo-Norman
pleit
Middle English
pleit
English
plait
English, today
plaited

plait comes from Middle English pleit, from Anglo-Norman pleit (compare Old French ploit), from Latin plectō, which is akin to Old Norse flétta (Danish flette), Russian плести́ and also to Old English fleohtan, which it displaced. a doublet of plight and pleat.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practised in A Song of Ice and Fire

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plaited in the wild

Koeksisters are prepared by frying plaited dough strips in oil, then submersing the hot fried dough into ice cold sugar syrup.
Koeksister
In western European nautical traditions, it was used to make flat plaited straps for use aboard ship.
Sennit
Straw is plaited to produce products including straw hats and ornaments, and the process is undertaken in a number of locations worldwide.
Straw plaiting
The Pintupi of the Western Desert would attach a double strand of plaited rope (ngalyibi) made of hair or plant fibre to sling the coolamon over their shoulders.
Coolamon (vessel)
The skinheads are stretched by plaited gut cords.
Tbilat

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Related words

the pleit family

plait

plaited — used too rare to measure · point at the bar for the others

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