Pleats

Synonyms

smocking doubles

Phrases with the word

one of a series of sharply pressed pleats one of a series of sharply folded pleats

Examples

A knife pleat is a simple fold, while the box pleat is bulkier, consisting of two knife pleats back-to-back. Source: Internet

Between 70 and 118 grooves (called ventral pleats) run along the throat parallel to the body length. Source: Internet

In addition the tentacles, whose surface area is increased by microvilli (small hairs and pleats), absorb organic compounds dissolved in the water. Source: Internet

Also just the choice of colour is what we are digging for here, and of course the clean and tidy pleats that gave a neat finish to the sari. Source: Internet

If the pleats were not stitched down in this portion of the kilt, the action, or movement, would be quite different. Source: Internet

From there its use spread "in the shortest space" amongst the Highlanders, and even amongst some of the Northern Lowlanders.sfn It has been suggested there is evidence that the philibeg with unsewn pleats was worn from the 1690s. citation. Source: Internet