"plicature" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /ˈplɪkət͡ʃə(ɹ)/, /ˈplɪkətjʊə(ɹ)/ Forms: plicatures [plural]
Etymology: From Latin plicatura, from plicare (“to fold”). Etymology templates: {{der|en|la|plicatura}} Latin plicatura Head templates: {{en-noun}} plicature (plural plicatures)
  1. (archaic outside sciences) A doubling; a fold; a plication. Categories (topical): Sciences
    Sense id: en-plicature-en-noun-HpsUQOa4 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "1640 (date written), H[enry] M[ore], “ΨΥΧΟΖΩΙΑ [Psychozōia], or A Christiano-platonicall Display of Life, […]”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […], Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Roger Daniel, printer to the Universitie, published 1642, →OCLC, book 1, stanza 18, page 5:",
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