Pleached
//pliːtʃt// adj, verb
adj, verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of pleach form-of, participle, past
Adjective
- 1 Entwined, intertwined, interwoven, plaited.
"Would'ſt thou be window'd in great Rome, and ſee / Thy Maſter thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe / His corrigible necke, his face ſubdu'de / To penetratiue ſhame; [...]"
- 2 Of a hedge, trees, etc.: created by interweaving branches.
"[T]he prince and Count Claudio, walking in a thicke pleached alley in mine orchard, were thus much ouer-heard by a man of mine: [...]"
Example
More examples"Would'ſt thou be window'd in great Rome, and ſee / Thy Maſter thus with pleacht Armes, bending downe / His corrigible necke, his face ſubdu'de / To penetratiue ſhame; [...]"
Etymology
From pleach + -ed.
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