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Placket

//ˈplækɪt// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A slit or other opening in an item of clothing, to allow access to pockets or fastenings

    "Dislike dressing together. Nicked myself shaving. Biting her nether lip, hooking the placket of her skirt."

  2. 2
    a piece of cloth sewn under an opening wordnet
  3. 3
    A petticoat, especially an underpetticoat. obsolete

    "Is there no manners left among maids?VVill they vveare their plackets vvhere they ſhould bear their faces?"

  4. 4
    A woman. broadly, obsolete, slang

    "[…]: after this,the vengeance on the vvhole Camp,or rather,the bone-ach,for that,me thinkes is the curſe dependant on thoſe that vvarre for a placket."

  5. 5
    A woman's pocket. obsolete
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  1. 6
    A leather jacket strengthened with strips of steel. historical
  2. 7
    An additional plate of steel on the lower half of the breastplate or backplate. historical

Etymology

From French plaquer (“to lay or clap on”). See placard.

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