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"text": "Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.",
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"etymology_text": "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 (plestí) and also to Old English fleohtan, which it displaced. Doublet of plight (“plait, fold”) and pleat.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "plaits",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "plaiting",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "plaited",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
{
"form": "plaited",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "plait (third-person singular simple present plaits, present participle plaiting, simple past and past participle plaited)",
"name": "en-verb"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to plait a ruffle",
"type": "example"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat"
],
"links": [
[
"fold",
"fold"
],
[
"double",
"double"
],
[
"pleat",
"pleat"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English terms with quotations",
"English terms with usage examples",
"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"text": "to plait hair",
"type": "example"
},
{
"text": "plaiting rope",
"type": "example"
},
{
"ref": "1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars",
"text": "Her abundant hair, of a dark and glossy brown, was neatly plaited and coiled above an ivory column that rose straight from a pair of gently sloping shoulders, clearly outlined beneath the light muslin frock that covered them.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid"
],
"links": [
[
"interweave",
"interweave"
],
[
"braid",
"braid"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid"
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/pleɪt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/plæt/"
},
{
"homophone": "plate"
},
{
"homophone": "plat"
},
{
"rhymes": "-æt"
},
{
"rhymes": "-eɪt"
},
{
"audio": "LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-plait.wav",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/50/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plait.wav/LL-Q1860_%28eng%29-Vealhurl-plait.wav.mp3",
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"tags": [
"Southern-England"
],
"text": "Audio (Southern England)"
}
],
"word": "plait"
}
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