plait
verb/plæt/
/plæt/
(British English) (also braid North American English, British English)
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they plait | /plæt/ /plæt/ |
| he / she / it plaits | /plæts/ /plæts/ |
| past simple plaited | /ˈplætɪd/ /ˈplætɪd/ |
| past participle plaited | /ˈplætɪd/ /ˈplætɪd/ |
| -ing form plaiting | /ˈplætɪŋ/ /ˈplætɪŋ/ |
- plait something to twist three or more long pieces of hair, rope, etc. together to make one long piece
- a basket with plaited handles
Oxford Collocations DictionaryPlait is used with these nouns as the object:- hair
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French pleit ‘a fold’, based on Latin plicare ‘to fold’. The word was formerly often pronounced like “plate”; since late Middle English there has been an alternative spelling plat, to which the current pronunciation corresponds.Want to learn more?
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