pleat
Example Sentences
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Her grandmother had sewn the dress — white with a careful trim, pleats and a wide-pressed collar.
From Los Angeles Times
Gehry’s first skyscraper, 8 Spruce, reimagined the Manhattan high-rise as a kind of gleaming, pleated fabric, its shifted stainless steel panels rippling downward, catching daylight in a constantly shifting display.
From Los Angeles Times
The night before my first day of work at NACA, I touched up my navy-blue tweed pleated skirt and jacket and checked my stockings to make sure they didn’t have any runs.
From Literature
If a pleated edge feels above your pastry pay grade, simply fold the edge of the dough over the filling.
The museum is clad in gray precast concrete panels, slightly angled from the wall in a way that suggests pleating.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
