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   plait

   /plāt/

   noun

   • 1. a single length of hair or other flexible material made up of three or more interlaced strands; a braid.
   • ▪ archaic term for pleat

   verb

   • 1. form (hair or other material) into a plait or plaits: "her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head"
   • ▪ make (something) by forming material into a plait or plaits: "a basket plaited from strips of flax"

   Word Origin late 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.

   Scrabble Points: 7

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