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語源

From 中期英語 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 古期英語 fleohtan, which it displaced. Doublet of plight (“plait, fold”) and pleat.

発音

• IPA: /pleɪt/, /plæt/
• 異形同音異義語: plate, plat
• 韻: -æt
• 韻: -eɪt

名詞

plait (plural plaits)

1. A flat fold; a doubling, as of cloth; a pleat.

   a box plait

   • 1705, J[oseph] Addison, Remarks on Several Parts of Italy, &c. in the Years 1701, 1702, 1703, London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], →OCLC:

     the plaits and foldings of the drapery

2. A braid, as of hair or straw; a plat.
   • 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:

     Only the hair as it arched so beautifully from her temples was mixed with silver, and the two simple plaits that lay on her shoulders were filigree of silver and brown.

派生語

関連する語

• pleat

Further reading

• Plait in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

動詞

plait (third-person singular simple present plaits, present participle plaiting, simple past and past participle plaited)

1. (transitive) To fold; to double in narrow folds; to pleat

   to plait a ruffle

2. (transitive) To interweave the strands or locks of; to braid

   to plait hair

   plaiting rope

   • 1900, Charles W. Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars:

     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.

派生語

アナグラム

• Patil, Pilat, lapti

名詞

plait

1. alternative form of ple