- a double or multiple fold in a garment or other item made of cloth, held by stitching the top or side褶。
with obj.
- fold into pleats打褶, 折弄：
she was absently pleating her skirt between her fingers
她心不在焉地在手指间折弄她的裙子。
as adj. pleated a short pleated skirt.一条短褶裙。
词源
late Middle English: a variant of PLAIT. The written form of the word became obsolete between c. 1700 and the end of the 19th cent.