a long piece of sth, especially hair, that is divided into three parts and woven together:
She wore her hair in plaits. * Her hair was tied back in a long thick plait.
verb [VN] to twist three or more long pieces of hair, rope, etc. together to make one long piece:
a basket with plaited handles
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for plait is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is plait a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, plait is tagged as noun.
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